Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

11.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

12.

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

Crane, George W.

13.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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.

23.

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

28.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

30.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

40.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

43.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen