Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Forbes, B. C.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Landers, Ann

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Branson, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Hendricks, Howard

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett