Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

- Brown, Gene

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Peters, Thomas J.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

10.

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

Menace, Dennis the

11.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Nightingale, Earl

13.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

14.

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

Williamson, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

19.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Iacocca, Lee

21.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Horace

28.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Koch, Sally

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

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Herold, Don

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.