Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.