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

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

Wicker, John

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landers, Ann

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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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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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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius