Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

- Ginzberg, Eli

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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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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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

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Koch, Sally

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Branson, Richard

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Nightingale, Earl