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Inspirational Opportunity Quotes

A Select Collection of Inspirational Opportunity Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Opportunity knocks but once. Do you make the most of your opportunities? Or do you dilly-dally and waste precious opportunities? If you procrastinate when opportunity knocks, you will suffer great loss. These inspirational opportunity quotes inspire us to make the most of every moment. Act fast, and act decisively the next time an opportunity comes by.

Henry David Thoreau
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Roy D. Chapin Jr.
Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Norman Vincent Peale
Become a possibilitarian. No mater how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities-always see them for they're always there.

Tracy Brinkmann
Before you begin climbing that ladder of success, make sure it's leaning towards the window of opportunity you desire!

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Charles Nicolle
Chance favors only those who court her.

Joseph Joubert
Chance generally favors the prudent.

Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Sophocles
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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