Life Opportunity Quotes

• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1964.

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• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Positive, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2015

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• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Adversity, Opportunity

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• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Reality, Fda

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• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Humor, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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• Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Humorous, Opportunity, Differences

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• When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Inspirational

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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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  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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• 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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• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Business, Educational

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

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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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• A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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