Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

10.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

18.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

19.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

20.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

21.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

22.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Sugarman, Joseph

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

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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

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

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.

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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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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

33.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

34.

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

Horace

35.

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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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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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

38.

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

Sayle, Alexi

39.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

40.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

41.

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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

43.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

44.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

45.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

46.

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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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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