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

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

Landers, Ann

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Proverb, Greek

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Wicker, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Publilius Syrus

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Horace

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Branson, Richard

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama