Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Branson, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann

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

Young, Brigham

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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 is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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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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 you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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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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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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