Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Rowland, Helen

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Branson, Richard

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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 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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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