Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sharp, Tom

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, Jack

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Ovid

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Horace

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Williamson, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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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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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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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