Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Buffett, Warren

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

10.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

21.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

22.

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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Young, Brigham

29.

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

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

Koch, Sally

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

40.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don