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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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.

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

10.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

17.

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

18.

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

Herold, Don

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

22.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

26.

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

28.

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

Flanders, Alberta

30.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

32.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

33.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Young, Brigham

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

40.

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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

43.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally