Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

11.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

12.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

13.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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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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

19.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

22.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

23.

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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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

25.

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

27.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

29.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

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

31.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

33.

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

34.

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

Young, Brigham

35.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

36.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

37.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

40.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

41.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

42.

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

Herold, Don

43.

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

44.

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

Iacocca, Lee

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

47.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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.