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

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Horace

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Koch, Sally

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Herold, Don

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Nightingale, Earl

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