Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

12.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

13.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Williamson, John

27.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

28.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Horace

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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.

31.

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

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

Crane, George W.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

35.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Proverb, Arabian

49.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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.