Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Herold, Don

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Koch, Sally

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Herbert, Jack