Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

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

Herbert, Jack

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.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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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Cezanne, Paul

13.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Wicker, John

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

18.

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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

21.

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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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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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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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Horace

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

43.

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

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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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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