Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ovid

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk