Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

14.

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

Horace

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Branson, Richard

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.