Golden Opportunity Quotes:

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

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

source: Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Strong, Strong Man, Strength Weakness

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Graduation, Opportunity, Golden, Luck And Skill, Best Opportunity

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Business, Opportunity, Best Opportunity, Great Opportunity

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

- Charles R. Swindoll

source: Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Life Opportunity, Impossible Situations

Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.

- James Van Praagh

source: FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Jan 31, 2015

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Golden, Golden Opportunity

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

- William James

topic: Life, Positive, Art, Great Opportunity, Golden Moments

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Recovery

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Self Determination, Live For Yourself

Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

- Rhonda Byrne

topic: Opportunity, Golden, Negative, Golden Opportunity

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

- Og Mandino

topic: Positive, Good Morning, Success, Special Gifts, Live Each Day

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2404, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Observant, Life Opportunity

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Money, Luck And Skill, Best Opportunity

This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Dream, Opportunity, Goal, Wreckage, Hopes And Dreams

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity, Ordinary Man, Great Opportunity

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Max Eastman

topic: Revenge, Opportunity, Doors, Live For Yourself, Marketing And Sales

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Peace, Inspiration And Motivation, Programming Languages

Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so I'm very, very happy.

- Shane Mosley

topic: Opportunity, Want, Tests, Golden Opportunity

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Opportunity, Dust, People, Golden Opportunity

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Positive Thinking, Writing, Opportunity, Life Crisis, Opportunity Knocking

I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

- Paul Auster

source: Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

topic: Country, Believe, Opportunity, Golden Opportunity, Significant Change

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Patriotic, Life Crisis, Opportunity Knocking

If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

topic: Gun, Opportunity, Hands, Law Abiding Citizen, Golden Opportunity

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.316, Hoover Press

topic: Leadership, Opportunity, Government, Civics, Distaste

Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

- Andrew Tan

topic: Passion, Opportunity, Looks, Golden Opportunity

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.

- D. James Kennedy

source: "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions" by D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries Media, 1993.

topic: Christian, Teacher, School, Christian Community, Golden Opportunity

No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.

- Elif Safak

topic: Moving, Heart, Opportunity, Being Depressed, Golden Opportunity

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Success, Opportunity, Men, Obstacle In Life, Golden Opportunity

Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

topic: Country, Gratitude, War, Golden Opportunity, Our Country

The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.

- Harry S. Truman

source: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

topic: Hard Work, Home, Opportunity, Sod, Family Farms

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Gun, Political, Misdeeds, Pro Gun

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

- Michael Gove

topic: School, Mean, Home, Golden Opportunity