Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Wicker, John

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

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Branson, Richard

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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.

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

26.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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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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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.

43.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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