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Opportunity

(noun) A chance for advancement, progress or profit. Example: "The world is full of opportunities and it's up to me to see them and pursue them."

27 QUOTES
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
— Sun Tzu
"Some things are more precious because they don't last long."
— Paulo Coelho
"You always have an opportunity to see the past for what it is, and live freely in today."
— Caylor Parish
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot
"The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone."
— Rumi
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
— Sun Tzu
"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."
— Ray Dalio
"Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land."
— Henry David Thoreau
"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
— Sun Tzu
"I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
— Maya Angelou
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."
— Zig Ziglar
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