Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

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

Herbert, Jack

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Young, Brigham

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Ovid

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Horace

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Nightingale, Earl

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Williamson, John

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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