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"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."

"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."

"In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities."

"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."


"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."


"Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction."


"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."


"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."
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