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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, George W.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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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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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

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

Horace

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

40.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

Branson, Richard

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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