Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

12.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Horace

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Williamson, John

25.

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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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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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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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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