Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Landers, Ann

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

10.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

11.

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

12.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

13.

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

14.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

15.

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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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

18.

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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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

20.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

25.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

YoungJr., Whitney

30.

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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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

35.

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

36.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

42.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

43.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Menace, Dennis the

46.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius