Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Wicker, John

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Ovid

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

Landers, Ann

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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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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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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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Horace

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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.