Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Horace

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Menace, Dennis the

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

34.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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