A Quote by Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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Maltbie Davenport Babcock
American - Writer
August 3, 1858 - May 18, 1901

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

Orison Swett Marden

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Roselyn Sanchez

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

Paulo Coelho

I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Roselyn Sanchez

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.

Jenni Rivera

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Rick Warren

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

A'Lelia Bundles

Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

Nido R Qubein

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

John W. Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Lee Iacocca

Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

Walter Chrysler

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.