Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Landers, Ann

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Sayle, Alexi

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

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

Wicker, John

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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

13.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

14.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

24.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Crane, George W.

27.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

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

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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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

45.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Herold, Don

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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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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

49.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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