Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

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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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Mandino, Og

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Williamson, John

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John