Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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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

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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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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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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Sayle, Alexi

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wicker, John

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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.