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There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy
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Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Alexander Graham Bell
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Jack Welch
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison
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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -W. R. Inge
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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. -Francois Mitterrand
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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.

Orison Swett Marden
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

Laura Bush
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You create your opportunities by asking for them. -Patty Hansen
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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf
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During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Brian Koslow
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. -Alcaeus
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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Catherine Deneuve
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. -Harvey S. Firestone
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Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Mary Frances Berry
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This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. -Edward de Bono
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw
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Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan
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Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Sir Francis Bacon
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. -Seneca
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