Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Koch, Sally

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Buffett, Warren

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

26.

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

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

31.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

32.

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

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Flanders, Alberta

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes