Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Koch, Sally

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

23.

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

24.

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 never lost; they are taken by others.

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

31.

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

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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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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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.

39.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

44.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod