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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

Publilius Syrus

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

Williamson, John

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Herold, Don

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

Flanders, Alberta

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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