Life Opportunity Quotes

• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Positive, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2015

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• Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Humorous, Opportunity, Differences

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• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1964.

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.33, Routledge

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• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Humor, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Adversity, Opportunity

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• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Reality, Fda

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• When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Inspirational

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• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Opportunity, Accomplishment, Achievement

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• Where one door shuts another opens.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Opportunity, Doors, Another Opportunity

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.334, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perseverance, Opportunity, Yield

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.161

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• Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald

  Opportunity, Bird, Missed Opportunity

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• Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

  Josh Billings

  Opportunity, Choices, Rare Opportunities

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