3,788 Quotes About Opportunity


  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

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  • Author Scarlett Johansson
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    There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.

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  • Author Scarlett Johansson
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    Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.

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