Definition of Occur

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Definition of Occur

Occur

To meet; to clash.

To go in order to meet; to make reply.

To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.

To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.

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Occur Quotations

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Saul Alinsky

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Paul Harvey

Occur Translations

occur in Afrikaans is gebeur, plaatsvind, geskie
occur in Danish is ske
occur in Dutch is gebeuren, aan de hand zijn
occur in Finnish is tapahtua
occur in German is eintreten, auftreten, vorfallen, auftreten
occur in Italian is accadere, succedere, esibirsi, entrare
occur in Latin is emergo, contingo, evello, incido, accido
occur in Portuguese is ocorra

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