Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Koch, Sally

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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