Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Publilius Syrus

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

10.

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

11.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

12.

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

13.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

14.

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

15.

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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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

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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.

18.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

21.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

22.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Flanders, Alberta

28.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

38.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Koch, Sally

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

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

Branson, Richard

44.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

45.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

46.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

47.

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

48.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk