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Opportunity

«Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.»
Author: Mother Maribel | About: Belief, Opportunity, Teachers and teaching | Keywords: calvary, shaped, submitted
«Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | About: Opportunity | Keywords: dressed, missed, overalls
«Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.»
Author: W. R. Inge | About: Opportunity, Prayer | Keywords: gentleman, maker, meets
«Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.»
Author: Joseph Campbell (Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher) | About: Challenge, Opportunity, Self-confidence | Keywords: challenging, deeper, opportunities, powers
«Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden | About: Opportunity | Keywords: all-around, latent, lying in wait, observant
«Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Disappointment, Opportunity
«Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again»
Author: Latin Proverb | About: Opportunity | Keywords: bald, forelock, Jupiter
«Opportunity only knocks once»
Author: Proverb | About: Opportunity | Keywords: knocks, Opportunity Knocks
«Opportunity makes the thief»
Author: Proverb | About: Opportunity | Keywords: thief
«Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.»
Author: William Arthur Ward | About: Opportunity | Keywords: beeper, beepers, billboard, billboards, the Billboard
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