Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Young, Brigham

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Koch, Sally

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

27.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

28.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Sharp, Tom

35.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Ovid

40.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Wicker, John

43.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

45.

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

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

Herold, Don

48.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian