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• Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Dream, Worry, Way

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Mind, Clients, Honest

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

  John Suckling

  Degrees, Heat, Chemist

  Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.274, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

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• Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

  George William Curtis

  Political, Social, Advantage

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.141

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• I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, Opportunist, Ifs

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• Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

  Victor Hugo

  Heaven, Half, Arms

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• I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

  Benjamin Graham

  Order, Technique, Analysis

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• I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

  Kenneth Lay

  Leader, Trying, Roles

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• There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

  James Packer

  Decision, Growth, Looks

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• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  Vic Snyder

  School, Rocks, America

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• The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

  John Smith

  Country, Asks, Our Country

  1994 Address to a European Gala Dinner,11 May.They were his final public words; he died the next morning of a heart attack.

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• Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Clothes, Dressed Up

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• Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Thinking, Spirit

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

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• Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Presence Of Mind, Talent, Penetration

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• Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
  [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

  Ovid

  Flower, Fly Away, Aids

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• A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mother, Age, Moments

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• Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.

  Gary Zukav

  Faith, Wisdom, Courage

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Zeal and duty are not slow
  But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

  John Milton

  Waiting, Duty, Zeal

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 3, l. 173

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Freedom, Humorous

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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• Little opportunities should be improved.

  Francois Fenelon

  Littles, Should

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• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Average, Fifty

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• As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

  Robert Collier

  May, Matter, Tiny

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

  Thomas Jones

  Children, Fall, Hands

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• An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Entrepreneur, Challenges

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Two

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