Definition of Opportunity
Opportunity
Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
Convenience of situation; fitness.
Importunity; earnestness.
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Opportunity Quotations
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Tony Robbins
Opportunity Translations
opportunity in Afrikaans is voorval, insident, geleentheid, gebeurtenis
opportunity in Danish is tildragelse
opportunity in Dutch is gebeuren, incident, gebeurtenis
opportunity in German is Kaufgelegenheit, Gelegenheit, Gelegenheit
opportunity in Latin is oportunitas, facultas, commodum, occasio, commodum
opportunity in Portuguese is oportunidade
opportunity in Spanish is posibilidad, acontecimiento, ocasion
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