Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

11.

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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

17.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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 sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Koch, Sally

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

31.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

38.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Nightingale, Earl