Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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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

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Ovid

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Horace

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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

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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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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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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