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Quote: Ideas without action are worthless.
Author: Harvey Mackay
Source: United Features Syndicate column, printed 3/22/98 in the Arizona Republic.
Keywords: action creativity opportunity work ideas

Quote: Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: problems effectiveness opportunity business

Quote: The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Author: Barbara Sher
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Keywords: opportunity action luck willingness

Quote: Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale
Keywords: enthusiasm idea goals thought opportunity success

Quote: Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine...[your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Keywords: life living opportunity values goals vision mission obstacles challenges

Quote: Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.
Author: Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Source: Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Keywords: excellence vocation opportunity mastery models inspiration guidance fulfillment vision potential

Quote: Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: action patience opportunity self-confidence

Quote: Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Author: Grenville Kleiser
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: work opportunity action privilege attitude achievement

Quote: Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
Author: Grenville Kleiser
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: joy life work privilege gratitude opportunity giving serving sharing character destiny spirit

Quote: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: opportunity life

Quote: This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: time life appreciation purpose meaning opportunity action

Quote: The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: opportunity action vision

Quote: He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Author: Horace
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: effort action opportunity work procrastination wisdom success

Quote: He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual things which have already taken place.
Author: Horace
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: present future past time self-confidence self-awareness action opportunity change

Quote: He is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: happiness fulfillment present opportunity

Quote: Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Keywords: luck effort work opportunity

Quote: Finish each day and be done with it...You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)
Keywords: past mistakes failure peace serenity self-confidence opportunity

Quote: Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall
Keywords: time life opportunity priorities planning

Quote: I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment.
Author: Doug Hall
Source: Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall
Keywords: possibilities potential opportunity vision creativity present

Quote: Now that we know we can't change the past we can realize that at this very moment we have the wonderful opportunity to begin anew! If you want something there is simply no better time than right now to pursue it!
Author: Josh Hinds
Source: Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Keywords: opportunity past future vision goal growth change success

Quote: It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Source: Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard
Keywords: abilities vision mission opportunity action

Quote: There is always a better way.
Author: Thomas Edison
Source: Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard
Keywords: growth change progress self-improvement success opportunity creativity

Quote: Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: faith love belief hope opportunity action

Quote: Every noble activity makes room for itself.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: action work effort opportunity planning priorities

Quote: No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: greatness opportunity vision

Quote: Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: talent action opportunity truth

Quote: To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: life opportunity vision good action happiness success

Quote: To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: opportunity living action

Quote: A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: nature work opportunity envy anger evil discovery God

Quote: Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
``Improve each moment as it flies!
``Life's a short summer, man a flower;
``He dies--alas! how soon he dies!
Author: Samuel Johnson from "Winter, An Ode"
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Keywords: time present opportunity life joy happiness

Quote: The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
Author: Mme. Du Deffand
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Keywords: begin success achievement opportunity goal vision dream``work effort start courage strength

Quote: A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Author: Sir Francis Bacon
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Keywords: opportunity success business vision mission goal dream

Quote: Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: ability opportunity talent skill action desire motivation attitude

Quote: Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
Author: William Shakespeare (Measure by Measure)
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Keywords: doubt self-confidence fear opportunity success failure

Quote: To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Author: Thomas Dekker
Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)
Keywords: smile happiness opportunity present vision work job purpose love laughter character gentleness kindness courtesy manners sleep joy time

Quote: When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Author: Helen Keller
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook
Keywords: happiness opportunity focus change

Quote: A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Author: Charles de Gaulle
Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren
Keywords: adversity problems difficulties challenges obstacles character opportunity growth maturity

Quote: What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love...Give it the best there is in you... Seize your opportunities...And be a member of the team.
Author: Benjamin F. Fairless
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: success achievement goals vocation joy work effort opportunity team cooperation

Quote: Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
Author: Myla Kabat-Zinn
Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Keywords: challenges opportunities opportunity obstacles difficulties difficulty problems adversity growth change learning

Quote: The time is always right to do what is right.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook
Keywords: action activism time opportunity

Quote: Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Author: Frederick Pierce
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: meditation visualization success planning vision mission achievement opportunity opportunities attitude

Quote: ..life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve. Live is always movement, always change, always unforeseen circumstances. There will always be something to grab your attention...Let's just acknowledge that as far as real life is concerned, we are only one step away from dealing with dysfunction.
...Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Keywords: procrastination busyness fulfillment meaning joy enjoyment love life stress opportunity

Quote: Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Author: Shirley Hufstedler
Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.
Keywords: risk bravery courage vision mission opportunity success caution

Quote: The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.
Author: L.P. Jacks
Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren
Keywords: optimism optimistic pessimism pessimistic attitude choice opportunity opportunities problems obstacles difficulties challenges adversity

Quote: All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have as an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Source: Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker
Keywords: equality equal opportunity talents skills ability education

Quote: Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year by Norman Vincent Peale
Keywords: problems difficulties challenges adversity opportunity

Quote: Every step you take should increase, not decrease, the breadth of your opportunities.
Author: Andy Tuck
Source: Re-invent Yourself by Ron Lieber, Fast Company, November 1999
Keywords: progress choices success opportunity

Quote: There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Author: Douglas MacArthur
Source: Power Quotes compiled by by Daniel B. Baker
Keywords: opportunity possibility vision success

Quote: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Author: Charles Dederich
Source: Cassell Companion to Quotations by Nigel Rees
Keywords: future present past growth opportunity renewal

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