Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Horace

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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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Crane, George W.

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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