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“Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.” -Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799 - 1869)
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” -Doris Lessing (Doris May Lessing (born Doris May Tayler (1919 - 2013)))
“If you miss an opportunity, that is not the end. Another one will come. Just prepare yourself as best you can so that you do not miss the next one.” -Author Unknown
“Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do. They don’t know what they want because they don’t know what’s available for them.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Ad Leptinem,” 162: as quoted in Thomas Benfield Harbottle: “Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)” (1897), page 511
“When opportunity knocks, don’t be the one to say, ‘Hey, can you get that?’” -Author Unknown
“Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.” -Croft M. Pentz (1931 - 2008)
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“The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.” -Author Unknown
“Make Hay, while the Sun shines.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 3314
“I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” -Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston (1929 - 1993))
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“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” -Shelby Steele
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1625), ‘Of Ceremonies and Respect’
“Be ready when opportunity comes . . . Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.” -Roy D. Chapin, Junior (Roy Dikeman Chapin, Junior (1915 - 2001))
“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.” -Author Unknown
“Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.” -Author Unknown
“Be a can-do, will-try person. Focus on what you have and not what you don’t have, what you can do rather than what you cannot do.” -Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939)
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“Opportunity does not come and knock on our doors. We must ourselves go knocking on doors to find opportunity, persistently knocking until we have an answer, either yes or no, and then we go on to the next ten thousand doors, one at a time, without pausing between them, smiling as best we are able, and speaking our carefully prepared and memorized introductions in a polite conversational style.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.” -Walter E. Cole, Junior (1926 - 2018)
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” -Sun-Tzu: “The Art of War” (3rd century B.C.E.)
“Your aspirations are your possibilities.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“You may miss all of the good opportunities if you are willing to try only what you are fairly certain you can succeed at. You have to try many things that might, or might not, work out.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“If you don’t hear opportunity knocking, find another door.” -Author Unknown
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -John J. Ingalls (John James Ingalls (1833 - 1900))
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“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Opportunity.
Opportunity, who?
Fooled you - opportunity only knocks once!
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“Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it.” -Louis L’Amour (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore (1908 - 1988))
“If you’re looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))
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“Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.” -Robert Brault (born 1938) at https://RBrault.blogspot.com/
“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” -Frederick Phillips
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” -John W. Gardner (John William Gardner (1912 2002))
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” -Chris Grosser
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“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “Tales of the Jazz Age” (1922), ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
“Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.” -Bayard Taylor (1825 - 1878)
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“Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.” -Marguerite de Angeli (1889 - 1987): “The Door in the Wall” (1949)
“Opportunity seems to have an uncanny habit of favoring those who have paid the price of years of preparation.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Highways of Happiness” magazine
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
“Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you’re only looking for a lucky break.” -Monta Crane (Monta Mildred (Henrichs) Crane (1911 - 2009))
“Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.” -Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799 - 1869)
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” -Doris Lessing (Doris May Lessing (born Doris May Tayler (1919 - 2013)))
“If you miss an opportunity, that is not the end. Another one will come. Just prepare yourself as best you can so that you do not miss the next one.” -Author Unknown
“Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do. They don’t know what they want because they don’t know what’s available for them.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Ad Leptinem,” 162: as quoted in Thomas Benfield Harbottle: “Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)” (1897), page 511
“When opportunity knocks, don’t be the one to say, ‘Hey, can you get that?’” -Author Unknown
“Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.” -Croft M. Pentz (1931 - 2008)
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“The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.” -Author Unknown
“Make Hay, while the Sun shines.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 3314
“I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” -Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston (1929 - 1993))
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“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” -Shelby Steele
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1625), ‘Of Ceremonies and Respect’
“Be ready when opportunity comes . . . Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.” -Roy D. Chapin, Junior (Roy Dikeman Chapin, Junior (1915 - 2001))
“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.” -Author Unknown
“Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.” -Author Unknown
“Be a can-do, will-try person. Focus on what you have and not what you don’t have, what you can do rather than what you cannot do.” -Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939)
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“Opportunity does not come and knock on our doors. We must ourselves go knocking on doors to find opportunity, persistently knocking until we have an answer, either yes or no, and then we go on to the next ten thousand doors, one at a time, without pausing between them, smiling as best we are able, and speaking our carefully prepared and memorized introductions in a polite conversational style.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.” -Walter E. Cole, Junior (1926 - 2018)
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” -Sun-Tzu: “The Art of War” (3rd century B.C.E.)
“Your aspirations are your possibilities.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“You may miss all of the good opportunities if you are willing to try only what you are fairly certain you can succeed at. You have to try many things that might, or might not, work out.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“If you don’t hear opportunity knocking, find another door.” -Author Unknown
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -John J. Ingalls (John James Ingalls (1833 - 1900))
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“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Opportunity.
Opportunity, who?
Fooled you - opportunity only knocks once!
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“Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it.” -Louis L’Amour (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore (1908 - 1988))
“If you’re looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))
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“Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.” -Robert Brault (born 1938) at https://RBrault.blogspot.com/
“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” -Frederick Phillips
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” -John W. Gardner (John William Gardner (1912 2002))
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” -Chris Grosser
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“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “Tales of the Jazz Age” (1922), ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
“Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.” -Bayard Taylor (1825 - 1878)
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“Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.” -Marguerite de Angeli (1889 - 1987): “The Door in the Wall” (1949)
“Opportunity seems to have an uncanny habit of favoring those who have paid the price of years of preparation.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Highways of Happiness” magazine
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
“Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you’re only looking for a lucky break.” -Monta Crane (Monta Mildred (Henrichs) Crane (1911 - 2009))
“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.” -Author Unknown
“A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, he creates the right opportunity.” -Author Unknown
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“Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
“Opportunities are seldom labeled.” -John A. Shedd (John Augustus Shedd (1859 - 1928))
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.” -William James (1842 - 1910): as quoted in Henry James, editor: “The Letters of William James” (1920): letter to W. Lutoslawski (6 May 1906)
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” -Author Unknown
“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” -Sue Ebaugh (Sue Atchley Ebaugh)
“Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
“It is one of life’s laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
“Opportunity seekers do not sit at home waiting by the telephone or the computer, nor do they hang out in familiar haunts and with the same old crowd. Opportunity seekers go out and knock on unfamiliar doors and enter intimidating buildings and go up and down on elevators and stairs. They do a lot of walking, dressed and groomed as best they can, doing best what they can with what they have until they have more and know more. They meet people who are better than they are, who outclass them in every way, and they continue on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” -Russell H. Conwell (Russell Herman Conwell (1843 - 1945)): “Acres of Diamonds” (1890)
“Opportunity . . . often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“Don’t wait for the right opportunity; create it.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.” -Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove, taking the C. J. from Charles Joseph Walker (1867 - 1919)) at https://madamcjwalker.com/
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.” -Doug Larson (Douglas Lincoln ‘Doug’ Larson (1926 - 2017))
“Are you missing opportunities because you are too focused on obstacles?” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete’s arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
“It’s hard to hear when opportunity is knocking if you are too busy knocking the opportunity.” -Author Unknown
“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 (1899 - 1975)
“Opportunity knocks once at every man’s door and then keeps on knocking.” -George Ade (1866 - 1944)
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“Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983)
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas A. Edison (Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)): as quoted in John L. Mason: “An Enemy Called Average” (1990), page 55
“Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity.” -Debbye Turner (Debbye Turner Bell (born 1965))
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“Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door . . . You might not be home.” -Jinger Heath (Jinger L. Heath (born 1952))
“Opportunity is more valuable than money.” -Grant Cardone (born 1958) at https://grantcardone.com/
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“Great minds must be ready not only to take the opportunities, but to make them.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
“People wait for opportunity to come along . . . yet it is there every morning.” -Author Unknown: “Dennis the Menace”
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“Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great achievements.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge, Junior (1872 - 1933))
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Matthew,’ chapter 7, verses 7 and 8 (see also verses 9 through 12)
“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“When opportunity knocks, you can’t say, ‘Come back later.’” -Leonard Turkel (1930 - 2011)
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
“Little opportunities should be improved.” -François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651 - 1715)
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“We have the power within, but the secret of success is to employ our power and talents and be prepared for opportunity when it comes.” -Walter Matthews (1926 - 2012)
“That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-Earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.” -Victoria Moran (born 1950) at https://mainstreetvegan.net/
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.” -Hugh Allen (Hugh Percy Allen (1869 - 1946))
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” -Bruce Barton (1886 - 1967)
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger (1908 - 2002))
“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.” -Catherine Deneuve (pseudonym of Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 1943))
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“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” -Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882 - 1941)))
“Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.” -Helen Schucman (Helen Cohn Schucman (born Helen Dora Cohn (1909 - 1981)))
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” -Thomas Buxton (Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 - 1845)): as quoted in Frank Leslie: “Sunday Magazine” (January - June 1886), Volume XIX, page 89
“When opportunity knocks, don’t question your ability based on your shortcomings. Know your strengths and start your journey!” -Author Unknown
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“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
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“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.” -Author Unknown
“A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, he creates the right opportunity.” -Author Unknown
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“Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
“Opportunities are seldom labeled.” -John A. Shedd (John Augustus Shedd (1859 - 1928))
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.” -William James (1842 - 1910): as quoted in Henry James, editor: “The Letters of William James” (1920): letter to W. Lutoslawski (6 May 1906)
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” -Author Unknown
“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” -Sue Ebaugh (Sue Atchley Ebaugh)
“Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
“It is one of life’s laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
“Opportunity seekers do not sit at home waiting by the telephone or the computer, nor do they hang out in familiar haunts and with the same old crowd. Opportunity seekers go out and knock on unfamiliar doors and enter intimidating buildings and go up and down on elevators and stairs. They do a lot of walking, dressed and groomed as best they can, doing best what they can with what they have until they have more and know more. They meet people who are better than they are, who outclass them in every way, and they continue on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” -Russell H. Conwell (Russell Herman Conwell (1843 - 1945)): “Acres of Diamonds” (1890)
“Opportunity . . . often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“Don’t wait for the right opportunity; create it.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.” -Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove, taking the C. J. from Charles Joseph Walker (1867 - 1919)) at https://madamcjwalker.com/
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.” -Doug Larson (Douglas Lincoln ‘Doug’ Larson (1926 - 2017))
“Are you missing opportunities because you are too focused on obstacles?” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete’s arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
“It’s hard to hear when opportunity is knocking if you are too busy knocking the opportunity.” -Author Unknown
“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 (1899 - 1975)
“Opportunity knocks once at every man’s door and then keeps on knocking.” -George Ade (1866 - 1944)
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“Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983)
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas A. Edison (Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)): as quoted in John L. Mason: “An Enemy Called Average” (1990), page 55
“Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity.” -Debbye Turner (Debbye Turner Bell (born 1965))
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“Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door . . . You might not be home.” -Jinger Heath (Jinger L. Heath (born 1952))
“Opportunity is more valuable than money.” -Grant Cardone (born 1958) at https://grantcardone.com/
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“Great minds must be ready not only to take the opportunities, but to make them.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
“People wait for opportunity to come along . . . yet it is there every morning.” -Author Unknown: “Dennis the Menace”
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“Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great achievements.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge, Junior (1872 - 1933))
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Matthew,’ chapter 7, verses 7 and 8 (see also verses 9 through 12)
“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“When opportunity knocks, you can’t say, ‘Come back later.’” -Leonard Turkel (1930 - 2011)
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
“Little opportunities should be improved.” -François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651 - 1715)
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“We have the power within, but the secret of success is to employ our power and talents and be prepared for opportunity when it comes.” -Walter Matthews (1926 - 2012)
“That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-Earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.” -Victoria Moran (born 1950) at https://mainstreetvegan.net/
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.” -Hugh Allen (Hugh Percy Allen (1869 - 1946))
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” -Bruce Barton (1886 - 1967)
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger (1908 - 2002))
“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.” -Catherine Deneuve (pseudonym of Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 1943))
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“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” -Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882 - 1941)))
“Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.” -Helen Schucman (Helen Cohn Schucman (born Helen Dora Cohn (1909 - 1981)))
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” -Thomas Buxton (Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 - 1845)): as quoted in Frank Leslie: “Sunday Magazine” (January - June 1886), Volume XIX, page 89
“When opportunity knocks, don’t question your ability based on your shortcomings. Know your strengths and start your journey!” -Author Unknown
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“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
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