Definition of Opportunity

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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.

Related Definitions:

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Opportunity Quotations

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

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

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

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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