Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Horace

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Landers, Ann

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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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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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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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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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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