Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

- Cezanne, Paul

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Grade, Lord Lew

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

12.

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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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

19.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

21.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

23.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

24.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

25.

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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

28.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

29.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

30.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

31.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

32.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

33.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

34.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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

39.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

47.

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

Horace

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

49.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph