Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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.

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koch, Sally

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

Flanders, Alberta

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Herold, Don

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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