Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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.

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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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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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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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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'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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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