Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Young, Brigham

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

Landers, Ann

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.

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horace

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Branson, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Williamson, John

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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