Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

- Ellen Metcalf

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Koch, Sally

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Kettering, Charles F.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Herbert, Jack

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver