Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

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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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

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

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Herbert, Jack

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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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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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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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Young, Brigham

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