Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Barton, Bruce

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

10.

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

11.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

12.

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

13.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

14.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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

16.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

18.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

19.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

25.

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

26.

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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

30.

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

31.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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.

33.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

35.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

43.

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

Young, Brigham

44.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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 multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

49.

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

Kettering, Charles F.