Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Menace, Dennis the

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

18.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

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

21.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Herold, Don

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Landers, Ann

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

32.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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.

45.

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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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Horace

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it