Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Collier, Robert

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Flanders, Alberta

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wicker, John

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Ovid

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

Landers, Ann

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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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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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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