Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Sharp, Tom

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Publilius Syrus

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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 steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

Herold, Don

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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 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 flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Koch, Sally

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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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 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 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 always looks better going than coming.

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

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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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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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.

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo