Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Williamson, John

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

10.

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

11.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.

13.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

14.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

15.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

20.

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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

23.

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

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

26.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

27.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

28.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

29.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

31.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

33.

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

Landers, Ann

34.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

42.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

43.

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

44.

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

Branson, Richard

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.