Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

10.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

11.

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

12.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

20.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

21.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

23.

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

25.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

28.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

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

Wicker, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

40.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.