Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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

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

Proverb, Greek

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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 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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Branson, Richard

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch