Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

13.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Menace, Dennis the

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Koch, Sally

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

Landers, Ann

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

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

Herold, Don