Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Sayle, Alexi

10.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

11.

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.

12.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

15.

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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

18.

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

19.

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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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

27.

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

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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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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Koch, Sally

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

40.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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 lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kettering, Charles F.