Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Herold, Don

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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