Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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 back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

18.

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

19.

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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

28.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

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

Sharp, Tom

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Herold, Don

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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