Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Nightingale, Earl

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

10.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

11.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

15.

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

Crane, George W.

16.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

17.

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

Williamson, John

18.

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

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Horace

20.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

21.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

22.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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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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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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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

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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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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.

29.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

32.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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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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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

39.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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