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

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Young, Brigham

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.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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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

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be an opener of doors.