Opportunities Quotes

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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Life is like an obstacle course. God laid the correct path down for you, but now it’s your choice whether to follow it or not.

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Never look at the doors closing behind you or you’ll miss the ones opening ahead.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon

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You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

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Opportunity knocks once,so grab it before the offer expires.

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Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss.
- Anonymous

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No duties, only opportunities.
- Anonymous

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

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Opportunity is a bird that never perches.
- Claude McDonald

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon

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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey

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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
- Hugh Miller

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You’ve got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
- Clive Davis

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If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.
- Anchee Min

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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
- Bulgarian Proverb

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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
- Maltbie Babcock

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Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
- Marie Ebner

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain

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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
- Dr. Jonas Salk

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Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it.
- Doc Sane

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Opportunity… often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporaray defeat.
- Napoleon Hill

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Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.
- George Clason

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
- Ann Landers

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A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
- William Thackeray

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In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
- Sidney Lumet

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It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
- Frederick Phillips

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunitiesö brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- John William Gardner

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- Peter F. Drucker

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The lure of the distant and the difficulty is deceptive. The great opportunity is where your are.
- John Burroughs

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We don’t need more strengh or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
- Basil S. Walsh

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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
- B.C. Forbes

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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
- William Arthur Ward

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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
- Sir Walter Scott

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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
- Harry Truman

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When a man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
- Jacques

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