Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Publilius Syrus

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Herold, Don

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

12.

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

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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

15.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Crane, George W.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

18.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

19.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

22.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

Proverb, Greek

28.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

29.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Horace

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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

33.

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

34.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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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

37.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

43.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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