Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Herold, Don

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Wicker, John

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Williamson, John

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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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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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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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Sayle, Alexi

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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