Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Landers, Ann

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wicker, John

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.