Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Branson, Richard

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

11.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Ovid

15.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

16.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hendricks, Howard

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

27.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

28.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

29.

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Horace

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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

39.

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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

41.

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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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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Landers, Ann

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

48.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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 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