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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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.

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

10.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

16.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

20.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

32.

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.

33.

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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Horace

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

Wicker, John

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Sharp, Tom

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.