Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Wicker, John

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Publilius Syrus

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Koch, Sally

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen