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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Crane, George W.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

10.

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.

11.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

12.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Herold, Don

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

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Wicker, John

28.

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Landers, Ann

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

Branson, Richard

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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

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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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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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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

47.

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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee