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

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

Publilius Syrus

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Proverb, Greek

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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 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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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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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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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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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