Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hoffer, Eric

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Greek

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.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herold, Don

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

15.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

18.

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

20.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

22.

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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herbert, Jack

27.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

31.

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

33.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

34.

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

Sharp, Tom

36.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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

39.

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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

43.

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

Branson, Richard

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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

46.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Opportunity creates desire.