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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Horace

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

Menace, Dennis the

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Koch, Sally

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Branson, Richard

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen