Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, John F.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Sharp, Tom

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

21.

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

Ovid

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Publilius Syrus

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

34.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.