Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel