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

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

Williamson, John

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rowland, Helen

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Branson, Richard

16.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

18.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

19.

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

20.

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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

23.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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

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

Wicker, John

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

35.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

41.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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.