Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rainer, Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Branson, Richard

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Young, Brigham

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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