Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Proverb, Greek

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Koch, Sally

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Wicker, John

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Publilius Syrus

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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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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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