Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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.

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

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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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

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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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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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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Crane, George W.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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 always looks better going than coming.

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

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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