Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Sayle, Alexi

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Greek

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