Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Herold, Don

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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.

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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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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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

28.

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

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

44.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Horace

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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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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

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen