Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Horace

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Flanders, Alberta

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Landers, Ann

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

Crane, George W.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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

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

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Hill, Napoleon

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