Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

- Krishna, Rama

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Ovid

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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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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Horace

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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, 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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Wicker, John

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