Opportunity quotations

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◆ We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

- Edith Lovejoy Pierce99

◆ When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

- Stephen Richards99

◆ Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...

- Melvin Burgess99

◆ Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

- Roger Von Oech99

◆ How would your life be different if…You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

- Cameron Diaz99

◆ Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you.

- Mandy Hale99

◆ Judgment is a negative frequency.

- Stephen Richards99

◆ It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

- Stephen Richards99

◆ Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

- Thomas S. Monson99

◆ Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

- Sarah Caldwell99

◆ If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

- William Blake99

◆ Opportunity tends to knock once, then it's gone...temptation, however, likes to stand there and lean on the damn doorbell!

- Sarah Moores99

◆ 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.

- Samuel Kayode99