"The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

Young Jr., Whitney on opportunity
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Hoffer, Eric on talent
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"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service."

Collier, Robert on opportunity   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on opportunity
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"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."

Sugarman, Joseph on opportunity
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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. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it."

L'Amour, Louis on opportunity   

"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures."

Brown, Gene on opportunity
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"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes on opportunity   

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself."

Proverb, Danish on envy
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Keller, Helen on art
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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

Jerrold, Douglas William on art
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"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

Hare, David on art
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."

Franklin, Benjamin on art
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"Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use."

Castaneda, Carlos on art
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"The heart always sees before than the head can see."

Carlyle, Thomas on art
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"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on art
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on art
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"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters."

Holyfield, Evander on art
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"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century."

Madwed, Sidney on courage
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on jealousy
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

Mandela, Nelson on art
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"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart."

Unknown, Source on art
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"They that envy others are their inferiors."

Saying on envy
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences."

Unknown, Source on truth
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"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through."

Overstreet, Harry A. on focus
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"Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech."

Evangel on wisdom
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane on adaptability
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

Ravitch, Diane on bosses and employees
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"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

Frost, Robert on bosses and employees
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"The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure."

Brooks, Frederick P. on bosses and employees   

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants..."

Addison, Joseph on fulfillment
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on fulfillment
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"I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification."

Cahn, Peggy on maturity