Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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.

18.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Young, Brigham

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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 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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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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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 the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Wicker, John

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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