Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Koch, Sally

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Flanders, Alberta

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Horace

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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Branson, Richard

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius