Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

13.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

21.

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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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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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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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 chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Koch, Sally

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

Collier, Robert

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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