Opportunity Quotes

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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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• Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

  Tucker Max

  Obstacles, Ifs

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• Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Travel

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• Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Doors, Life Opportunity

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• Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Night, Two

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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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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• Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

  Robert Redford

  Inspirational, People, Together

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  Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Success, Fear

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• The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Motivational, Success, Football

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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  With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Positive, Regret

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 29, 2015

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing

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• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Positive, Leadership, Wisdom

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• We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Realizing, Consciousness

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• The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

  Confucius

  Helping, Seize The Opportunity

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• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

  Hugh Miller

  Encouraging, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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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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• Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

  Alyce Cornyn-Selby

  Procrastination, Graves, Buried

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• You can do anything, but not everything.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Powerful

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

  Mark Twain

  Life, Able, Knocking

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.108, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

  Tony Robbins

  Preparation, Luck, Action

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 03, 2015

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