A Quote by John C. Maxwell

The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

John C. Maxwell

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John C. Maxwell
American - Priest
Born: February 20, 1947

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

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Geeta Phogat

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Diego Klattenhoff

You're only as good as your opportunities in this game and you're lucky to get some opportunities.

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We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

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Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

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Lizzie Velasquez

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

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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.

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

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