Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

13.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Williamson, John

16.

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

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

21.

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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

29.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

30.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

31.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Koch, Sally

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Horace

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Flanders, Alberta

44.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

47.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Iacocca, Lee