Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

11.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

12.

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

Williamson, John

14.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Landers, Ann

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

Wicker, John

19.

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

Nightingale, Earl

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

21.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

25.

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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

27.

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

28.

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

Horace

29.

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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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.

31.

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

Herbert, Jack

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

44.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

45.

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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

49.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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