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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Daily Quote:
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Opportunity

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.
A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Be an opener of doors.
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
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.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.
Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity
Every wall is a door.
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.
God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
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.
If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.
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.
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
Little opportunities should be improved.
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.
Make the iron hot by striking it.
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.
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.
Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
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.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. 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.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.
Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.
Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.
Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.