OPPORTUNITY

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“This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true god, and the one who sent, Jesus Christ.” – Jesus Christ – John 17:3 – Apostle John – The BIBLE

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work.  – Henry Ford                                

“And another thing, I want you to be more assertive!  I’m tired of everyone calling you Alexander the Pretty Good!” – Mother to Alexander the Great as a kid. – Gary Larson

If you want anything done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more you do, the more you CAN do. – Lucille Ball

Buy land—they’ve stopped making it. – Mark Twain

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. – Grace Hansen

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. – Neil Simon

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers

In the long run men only hit what they aim at.  Therefore, they had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. – Bette Midler

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” – Decca Recording Company in rejecting a recording contact with the Beatles.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. – Victor Hugo

When one door closes, another opens.  But we often look so regretfully on the closed door, we don’t see the one that opened for us. – Helen Keller

Failure has a thousand explanations.  Success doesn’t need one. – Alec Guiness

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – (Coach) Darrel Royal

Opportunities never last, they are taken by others. – Unknown

“I think there is a world market for about 5 computers.” – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943

Attempt the impossible to improve your work. – Bette Davis

When all else fails, follow directions. – Someone smart

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“Keep on asking, and it will be given to you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened for you; for everyone asking receives, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking, it will be opened to you.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 7:7, 8 – Apostle Matthew – The BIBLE

You see things and you say, “Why?”  But I dream things that never were, and I say, “Whynot?” – George Bernard Shaw

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. – Johan von Goethe

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duel – retiring Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899.

Yesterday’s Olympic winners would be beaten by today’s high school kids. – Paul Harvey

Ability is what you are capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it. – (Coach) Lou Holtz

Even a mistake may turn out to be the only thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. – Albert Camus

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Andrew Carnegie

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however distant or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                                          

Destiny never opens a door without shutting the other. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.  Radio has no future.  X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” – Lord Kelvin (Leading thermodynamic scientist & President of British Royal Society) – 1976.

Eighty per cent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? – A good question

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“This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 24:14 – Apostle Matthew– The BIBLE

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is.  Treat a person as he could be, and he will become as he should be. – (Coach) Jimmy Johnson

Crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind. – Dennis Waitley           

Opportunities are like sunrises.  If you wait too long you’ll miss them. – William Arthur Ward         

Do what you love and you will find a way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

When you do nothing, how do you know when you’re finished? – Me, many times

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  – Lao Tzu

The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us.” – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.

“Am I in heaven?” asked Denise Lockie after her plane crash-landed on the frozen Hudson River.                                                                                                    “No, and I’m no angel,” said Mark Hood, urging her to get moving quickly toward the exit.

Not many signs in life, urban or rural, exceed in interest a knock on the door. – Charles Lamb

The great do what they like—the little do what they can. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it. – Chinese proverb

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous – Albert Einstein

Dreams are inside ourselves.  Always listen to the experts.  They’ll tell you what can’t be done…Then do it! – Unknown                                                 

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. – Andy Rooney

Hindsight is a 20/20 exact science. – Gary Pulliam (just kidding) – Anonymous

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. – Laurence J. Peter

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Jonathan Winters          

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. – Seneca

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“so that the man of God  may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.” – Apostle Paul – 2 Tim. 3:17 – The BIBLE

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. – Albert Einstein – 1932.

You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on

Friendship is a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibron

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. – Bobby Unser          

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of other men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Training a puppy is like raising a child.  Every single interaction is a training opportunity. – Ian Dunbar

Your big opportunity may be where you are right now. – Napoleon Hill

Everything negative–pressure, challenges, is all an opportunity for me to rise. – Kobe Bryant

The entrepreneur always searches for changes, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.  – Peter Drucker

Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. – Victor Kiam

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others.  It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. – Mwai Kibaki

Discourage litigation.  Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can.  As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.  There will be business enough. – Abraham Lincoln

I say luck is when opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it. – Denzel Washington

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. – H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

Every right implies a responsibility.  Every opportunity, an obligation.  Every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefellar

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.  The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or inclination for improvement.  Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. – William Pollard

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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities.  Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wished they had missed. – Lily Tomlin