Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Buffett, Warren

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Williamson, John

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Herold, Don

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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.

26.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Branson, Richard

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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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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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