Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

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

Herold, Don

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

14.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

18.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

29.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

30.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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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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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, Greek