Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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.

15.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Ovid

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

Crane, George W.

35.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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

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

Horace

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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