Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Herold, Don

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

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.

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Crane, George W.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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 neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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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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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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