Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Branson, Richard

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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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 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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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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