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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Young, Brigham

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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 create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Publilius Syrus

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Forbes, B. C.