Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Buffett, Warren

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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

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

Herold, Don

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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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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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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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Landers, Ann

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Horace

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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

Proverb, Arabian

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.