Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Hoffer, Eric

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

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

10.

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.

11.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

12.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Landers, Ann

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

24.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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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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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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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

31.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

34.

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

Proverb, Greek

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

37.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

39.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

41.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Crane, George W.

45.

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

46.

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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.