Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

12.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

15.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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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 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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Wicker, John

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Iacocca, Lee