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Opportunity Quotes
"Always be on the lookout for that spark of opportunity that could change your life or someone close to you forever."
Peter Simmons
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
Milton Berle
"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
Charles Richter
"Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
James F. Byrnes
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."
Maxwell Maltz
"Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs."
Mario Andretti
"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."
Les Brown
"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
Whitney Young, Jr.
"Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one." Kirk Kirkpatrick
"There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from."
Francois La Rochefoucauld
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily." Sally Koch
"Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home."
Jinger Heath
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
Demmosthenes
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
"They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time."
John S. Mill
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
Samuel Smiles
"Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control. "
M. Charles Wheeler
"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood."
English Proverb
"It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity."
George Matthew Adams
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
John F. Kennedy
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca
View change as an opportunity
Change is coming at all of us at a rapid pace. You must accept that change is inevitable. Rather than resisting the change, you look for opportunities and ways to make change work to the benefit of the team.
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer
"I don't know anything of luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball
"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." Brian Tracy
"Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." Marsha Sinetar
"You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success."
Og Mandino |
