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

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

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

Horace

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Wicker, John

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Herold, Don

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Proverb, Greek

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

22.

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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Marden, Orison Swett

43.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Williamson, John

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.