Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Publilius Syrus

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Greek

16.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

17.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

18.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

19.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

24.

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.

25.

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

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

Herold, Don

27.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

28.

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

Branson, Richard

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Wicker, John

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

Landers, Ann

38.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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.

40.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

42.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

45.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett