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

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

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Branson, Richard

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hendricks, Howard

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sharp, Tom