Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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.

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The back of one door is the face of another.

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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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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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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