Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Sharp, Tom

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

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

Koch, Sally

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

11.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

12.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

13.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

34.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Herold, Don

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

40.

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

41.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.