Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Branson, Richard

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

Forbes, B. C.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Proverb, Greek

10.

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

Koch, Sally

11.

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.

12.

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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Collier, Robert

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Sharp, Tom

19.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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

23.

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

Flanders, Alberta

24.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

25.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

26.

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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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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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

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

31.

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

33.

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 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

35.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

36.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

38.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

39.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

40.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

48.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson