Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Branson, Richard

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Menace, Dennis the

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Horace

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Koch, Sally

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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Flanders, Alberta