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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

17.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

21.

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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

23.

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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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.

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

32.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

33.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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

35.

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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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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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

42.

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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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

44.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Horace

49.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og