Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Menace, Dennis the

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Branson, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.