Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

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

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

10.

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

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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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.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

24.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

28.

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

29.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

30.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.