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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Herold, Don

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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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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