Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Branson, Richard

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

11.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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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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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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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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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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.

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

49.

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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.