Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hoffer, Eric

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Wicker, John

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Branson, Richard

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Proverb, Greek

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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

42.

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 one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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.