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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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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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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Young, Brigham

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson