Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Williamson, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Horace

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Branson, Richard

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Williamson, John

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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