Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Flanders, Alberta

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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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

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Horace

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

Wicker, John

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo