Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Horace

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Buffett, Warren

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

32.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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