Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

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

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

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

20.

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

Flanders, Alberta

21.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Sharp, Tom

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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

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

30.

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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sayle, Alexi

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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