Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Crane, George W.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Ovid

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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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 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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

36.

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

Herold, Don

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.