Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Nightingale, Earl

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Williamson, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Koch, Sally

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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