Deceptive Quote by John Burroughs Download Open image “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” — John Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceptive Difficult Great opportunity Opportunity
Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
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It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The road to opportunities is not that hard to find; opportunities are usually found in the darkest corners along the most difficult situations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image