Quotes about Opportunity

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

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.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Today.....I begin a new life.

If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.

Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.