Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Herold, Don

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Branson, Richard

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

Publilius Syrus

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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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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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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