Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Young, Brigham

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Proverb, Greek

43.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von