Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Young, Brigham

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Horace

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

Landers, Ann

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Ovid

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Williamson, John

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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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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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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus