Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

10.

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

Williamson, John

11.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

12.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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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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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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

17.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

18.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

19.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Herold, Don

23.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

24.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

25.

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

26.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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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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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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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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

33.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Wicker, John

37.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

39.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

41.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

44.

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

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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Iacocca, Lee

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