Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Sayle, Alexi

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Landers, Ann

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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Williamson, John

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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

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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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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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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

Herold, Don

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.