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• I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Teacher, Encouragement, Sweet

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• We must open the doors of opportunity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Doors

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• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Positive, Fear

  "Oprah, in Her Words: Our American Princess". Book by Tuchy Palmieri, 2008.

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• It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

  Bear Bryant

  Nice, Golf, Winning

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Investing Money, Next Week

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Men, Being Sad

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  David Rockefeller

  Motivational, Success, Monday

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• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Mean, Thinking, Waste

  "Cancer Makes Strange Bedfellows" by Dan Duffy, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2013.

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• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Arriving, Arrivals

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Half, Pleasure

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• Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Missing You

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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• Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Disappointment, Grasping, Occasions

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.34, See Sharp Press

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• We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Doors, People

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

  Robert Kennedy

  4th Of July, Political, Challenges

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

  Clive Davis

  Business, Action, Ifs

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• I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

  Pete du Pont

  Motivational, Optimism, Nowhere To Go

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• Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

  Orison Swett Marden

  Tuning, Broadcasting, Should

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• We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Moving, Rich

  Speech at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 22 May 1964

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• Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

  Publilius Syrus

  Lost, Deliberation

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• So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

  Brandi Chastain

  Doing Me, Shapes, Come Back To Me

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  I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Cute, Positive

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• Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Love, Inspirational Life, Cute Life

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Life, Trust, Entrepreneur

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