Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Landers, Ann

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Koch, Sally

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Horace

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

Herbert, Jack

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Sugarman, Joseph

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Proverb, Arabian