Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about 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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Wicker, John

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Horace

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Greek

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Menace, Dennis the

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen