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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, Greek

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Landers, Ann

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Ovid

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

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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 is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Wicker, John

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

38.

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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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Brigham

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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.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?