Great Opportunity Quotes

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

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Waiting

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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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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• Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Powerful, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

  Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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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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• Great moments are born from great opportunities.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Sports, Hockey

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

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• I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Opportunity, Ideas, Looks

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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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• It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

  George Madison Adams

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Humble, Opportunity, Simple

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.

  Woody Allen

  Life, Graduation, Home

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  Al Capone

  Opportunity, Hands, History

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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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• Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Change, Opportunity, Rabbits

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• Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
  In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

  Robert Breault

  Opportunity, Mind, Doe

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• There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

  Soichiro Honda

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  Whitney M. Young

  Inspirational, Opportunity, African American

  "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

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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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• Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Men, Opportunity, Doors

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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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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