Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Horace

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Menace, Dennis the

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

42.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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

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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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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren