Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Sayle, Alexi

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Buffett, Warren

12.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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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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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Flanders, Alberta

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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.

47.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb