Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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.

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

Williamson, John

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

11.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Menace, Dennis the

15.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

21.

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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

49.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Herold, Don