OPPORTUNITY

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(386 votes)  When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller
1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

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(376 votes)  We must open the doors of opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(256 votes)  Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ''Are your ready?''

Johnny Carson
1925-, American TV Personality, Businessman

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(252 votes)  You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Bob Anderson

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(248 votes)  If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

James Allen
1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

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(235 votes)  I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Detronius Arbiter

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(189 votes)  To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee
1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist

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(182 votes)  Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Brigham Young
1801-1877, American Mormon Leader

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(175 votes)  Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist

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(165 votes)  Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Arabian Proverb
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(164 votes)  I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Sara Teasdale
1884-1933, American Poet

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(160 votes)  One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Baltasar Gracian
1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

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(156 votes)  The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(154 votes)  What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maxwell Maltz
American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''

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(149 votes)  Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(141 votes)  Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(141 votes)  It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(141 votes)  When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Eileen Caddy
American Spiritual Writer

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(140 votes)  When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jesse Jackson
1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

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(140 votes)  If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Les Brown
1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

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(139 votes)  People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Dennis the Menace

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(138 votes)  The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs
1837-1921, American Naturalist, Author

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(136 votes)  Opportunity creates desire.

Dutch Proverb
Sayings of Dutch Origin

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(136 votes)  Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin

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(136 votes)  How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(135 votes)  There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(134 votes)  Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(134 votes)  The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(133 votes)  Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

Thomas Jones

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(130 votes)  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers
1918-, American Advice Columnist

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(130 votes)  Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes
c.383-322 BC, Greek Orator

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(127 votes)  The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(126 votes)  Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
American Author of ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' Series

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(126 votes)  I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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(126 votes)  Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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(125 votes)  Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

David J. Schwartz
American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''

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(125 votes)  Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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(124 votes)  Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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(124 votes)  To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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(121 votes)  Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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(120 votes)  If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Thomas J. Peters
1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer

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(119 votes)  We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler

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(117 votes)  Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

Grace Speare

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(116 votes)  You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collier
American Writer, Publisher

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(115 votes)  Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(115 votes)  It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Whitney Young Jr.
1922-1971, American Social Reformer

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(113 votes)  Little opportunities should be improved.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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(110 votes)  Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(109 votes)  The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman

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(105 votes)  Make the iron hot by striking it.

Oliver Cromwell
1599-1658, Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England

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