Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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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

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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.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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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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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

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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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

28.

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

29.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Horace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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

44.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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