Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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.

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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 lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen