Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Horace

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Sayle, Alexi

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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