Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

13.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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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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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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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 always looks better going than coming.

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Young, Brigham

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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