Seize The Opportunity Quotes

• It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

  Mike Huckabee

  Opportunity, Expectations, People

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.

  Rodney Williams Jr.

  Positivity, Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn

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• You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

  Clive Davis

  Business, Opportunity, Action

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

  Confucius

  Opportunity, Helping

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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

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

  Aidan Chambers

  Opportunity, Missing, Chance

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

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• Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Opportunity, Would Be

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1964.

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

  Mark Twain

  Life, Opportunity, Able

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.108, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can - including the obstacles - to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances. You're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.

  Brett Favre

  Running, Opportunity, Years

  "Favre Knows That Time Is Quickly Running Out". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. January 29, 2004.

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• The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Michael Curtiz

  Regret, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Zachary Scott

  Inspiring, Travel, Regret

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

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• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

  Life, Happiness, Death

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• Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

  William Arthur Ward

  Opportunity, Knocking, Difficult

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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