Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

10.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Williamson, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Collier, Robert

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Ovid

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

Wicker, John

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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