Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

- Ginzberg, Eli

Best Quotes about 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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

10.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

Flanders, Alberta

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

15.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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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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.

18.

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.

20.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

24.

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

Collier, Robert

25.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

27.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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

Williamson, John

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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

37.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

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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.

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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

45.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

46.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb