Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rainer, Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Williamson, John

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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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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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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Horace

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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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 lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

34.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Herold, Don

37.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Landers, Ann

48.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Ovid