Opportunity

(86 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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(30 votes)   The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan
Spanish American Singer, ''Miami Sound Machine''

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(352 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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(223 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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(172 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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(149 votes)   Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(147 votes)   When fortune knocks open the door.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(135 votes)   Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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

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

Dennis the Menace

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(126 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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(124 votes)   We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Maria Rilke Rainer

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(122 votes)   When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Rama Krishna

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(110 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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