Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Branson, Richard

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horace

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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.

21.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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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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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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