Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rainer, Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Branson, Richard

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

28.

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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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.

46.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch