Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Koch, Sally

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Publilius Syrus

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Herold, Don

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Crane, George W.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

49.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Koch, Sally