Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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.

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Publilius Syrus

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an 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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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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.

36.

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

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Crane, George W.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Tocqueville, Alexis De

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