Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Herold, Don

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Branson, Richard

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James