Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Horace

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Publilius Syrus

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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.