Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Kennedy, John F.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Sayle, Alexi

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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