Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

14.

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

Branson, Richard

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Koch, Sally

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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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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

42.

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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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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.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Menace, Dennis the