Roadblocks
aren’t barriers—they open your eyes to other routes.
- Joyce Restaino, Writer
You
must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.
- William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), publisher
Opportunity
comes often. It knocks as often as
you have an ear trained to hear it, an eye trained to see it, a hand trained to
grasp it, and a head trained to use it.
- Kemmons Wilson
When
one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the on that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Horatius
There
is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
- Brutus, in Shakespeare's, Julius Caesar
The
lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under
foot." You are always nearer
the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of
the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
Do not despise your own place and hour.
Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
- John Burroughs
There
is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only
a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
I
was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one.
- Marke Twain (1835-1910), Writer and humorist.
In Chinese, the word for crisis is wei ji, composed of the character wei,
which means danger, and ji, which means opportunity.
- Jan Wong
If
the knocking at the door is loud and long, it isn’t opportunity—it’s
relatives.
- Farmer’s Almanac
A
clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at
all.
- Chinese proverb
I
always try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller
Drop
the three L’s—lack, loss, limitation—from your vocabulary.
Don’t
waste your time worrying. Worry is
not preparation. Analyze the
situation and focus on solutions. There
is always an answer.
Creed
for Optimists,
Chistian D. Larsen
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all your friends feel there is something special in them.
Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Give everyone a smile.
Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Perpetual optimism
is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell
Before I was
paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do. Now there are 9,000.
I could dwell on the 1,000 I lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
- W. Mitchell, professional speaker
Be
a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the
tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
- Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
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