Golden Opportunity Quotes

• 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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  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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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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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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• Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.

  James Van Praagh

  Opportunity, Missing, Golden

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Jan 31, 2015

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Opportunity, Negative, Golden

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Hero”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Moving On, Morning

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

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

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• Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2404, e-artnow

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Money

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• This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Opportunity

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam". Book by Abdul Kalam, Aruṇ Tivāri, p. 140, 1999.

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

  Og Mandino

  Morning, Good Day, Echoes

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• Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.

  Og Mandino

  Good Morning, Good Day, Opportunity

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• Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so I'm very, very happy.

  Shane Mosley

  Opportunity, Want, Tests

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• Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Dust, People

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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, Opportunity

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• I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

  Paul Auster

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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