Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rainer, Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Horace

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Wicker, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Hill, Napoleon