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

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

12.

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

Wicker, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

18.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

19.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

20.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

21.

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

Koch, Sally

26.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

29.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

34.

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

Crane, George W.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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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.

42.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Sayle, Alexi

44.

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

45.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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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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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