Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herold, Don

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

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

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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 sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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