Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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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.

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

22.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Branson, Richard

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

45.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.