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

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

10.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

14.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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

18.

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

Hendricks, Howard

19.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

20.

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

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

Landers, Ann

24.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

25.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

26.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

27.

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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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

Koch, Sally

41.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Menace, Dennis the

45.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

46.

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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

49.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

50.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid