Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Lehmann, Rosamond

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Menace, Dennis the

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ovid

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

24.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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 missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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

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