Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Koch, Sally

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Collier, Robert

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wicker, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Young, Brigham

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Sharp, Tom

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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