Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

Young, Brigham

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Landers, Ann

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

19.

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

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Horace

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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.

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von