Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Landers, Ann

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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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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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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 want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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 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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Koch, Sally

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Horace

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Branson, Richard

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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