Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Ovid

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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 are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Herold, Don

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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

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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.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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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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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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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 flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Koch, Sally

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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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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois