Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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

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

Koch, Sally

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

Williamson, John

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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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

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hendricks, Howard

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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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