Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

11.

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

12.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Williamson, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

17.

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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Horace

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

Hendricks, Howard

25.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Wicker, John

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

43.

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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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 an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Flanders, Alberta