Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Grade, Lord Lew

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Koch, Sally

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

12.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

13.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Crane, George W.

17.

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

18.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

19.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

24.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

25.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

26.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

28.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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

31.

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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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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Proverb, Greek

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

44.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

47.

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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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