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A wise
person will make more
opportunities than he or she finds.
Francis
Bacon
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Opportunities flit by
while we sit regretting the chances
we have lost, and the
happiness that comes to us
we heed not, because of the
happiness that is gone. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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The best picture has
not yet been painted;
the greatest poem is
still unsung;
the mightiest
novel
remains to be
written; the divinest
music has not been
conceived even by Bach.
In science, probably
ninety-nine
percent
of the knowable has
not yet been discovered.
Lincoln Steffens
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Opportunities
are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't
recognize them.
Ann Landers |
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The
lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
John
Burroughs |
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Horace
Mann |
Lost
yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset,
two
golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No
reward is offered, for they are gone forever. |
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Henry
David Thoreau
I
was thinking, accidentally, of my own unsatisfactory life,
doing as others do;
and with that vision of the [gold]
diggings still before me, I asked myself, why
I might not
be washing some gold daily, though it were only the
finest particles,--why
I might not sink a shaft down to
the gold within me, and work that mine. . . .
I might
pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked,
in which
I could walk with love and reverence. Whenever a person separates from the multitude,
and goes his or her own way in
this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though
ordinary
travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His or her solitary path across-lots
will turn out the higher way of
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I
shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by--
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost |
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The ten most
powerful two-letter words:
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Anon |
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L.P.
Jacks
The
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the
optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty. |
When
written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is
composed of two characters--one represents danger and the
other
represents opportunity.
John
F. Kennedy |
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We
need you, we need your youth, your strength,
and your
idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.
I know you
have been critically looking at the mores
and customs of
the past and questioning their value.
Every generation
does that. But don't discard the
time-tested values upon
which civilization has been built
just because they are
old. More important, don't let
the doom criers and the
cynics persuade you that
the best is past--that from here
it's all downhill.
Each generation goes further than the
generation
preceding it because it stands on the
shoulders
of that generation. You will have opportunities
beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald
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Don't put
off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you
enjoy it today, you can do it
again tomorrow.
James A. Michener |
The hardest thing to
believe when you're young
is that people will fight to
stay in a rut,
but not to get out of one.
Ellen Glasgow |
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One
who
never walks except where
he or she sees other people's tracks will
make no discoveries.
Anon |
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Brandeis
Most of
the things worth doing in the world
had been declared
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Always
keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is
the little task
that is important to God. The
future of the Kingdom of God does not depend
on the
enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great
ones
are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to
have a great number
of little people who will do a little
thing in the service of God. The great
flowing rivers
represent only a small part of all the water that is
necessary
to nourish and sustain the earth. Beside the
flowing river there is
the water in the earth--the
subterranean water--and there are
the little streams
which continually enter the river and feed it and
prevent
it from sinking into the earth. Without these other waters--
the silent hidden subterranean waters and the
trickling streams--
the great river could no longer flow.
Thus it is with
the little tasks to be fulfilled by us
all.
Albert
Schweitzer |
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Great
opportunities come to all, but many do not know
they have
met them. The only preparation to take advantage
of them
is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings.
Albert E. Dunning |
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People
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.
T. Jones |
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Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen;
people fairly breathe it and do not know it.
Doc Sane |
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I think luck is the
sense to recognize an opportunity and
the ability to take
advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks,
but everyone
also has opportunities. People who can smile
at their breaks and grab their chances get on.
Samuel Goldwyn |
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The opportunity that God sends
does not wake up those who are asleep.
Senegalese proverb |
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The
greatest achievement of the human spirit is
to live up to
one's opportunities,
and make the most of one's resources.
Vauvenargues
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The secret of
success in life is for one to be ready
for one's opportunity when it
comes.
Benjamin
Disraeli |
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Jumping at
several small opportunities may get us there
more quickly
than waiting for one big one to come along.
Hugh Allen |
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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 always surrounded by doors of
opportunity.
That’s
the way life is. Often,
opportunities do
not come in packages wrapped in the colors
we
expected. When an
unexpected surprise
happens, we refuse to see it and so we
miss
the opportunity. Sometimes
we are so focused
on a goal far out in the future that we do
not see
what is right in front of us, or we get so busy
hurrying and rushing around that
we lose all perspective.
Anne Wilson Schaef |
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My
biggest problems in life have come when I haven't
recognized opportunities. Because I haven't seen them
until too late so often, I haven't been able to take
advantage of them. I suppose many people would
say that I've had bad luck, but I don't see it that
way at all. I see it as having missed opportunities,
and I don't get down on myself for having missed them.
After all, there was no one around when I was growing up to
teach me to recognize and take advantage of opportunities.
tom
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