Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Koch, Sally

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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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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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

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

Horace

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

Williamson, John

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Menace, Dennis the

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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