Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

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

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Crane, George W.

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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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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

24.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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.

38.

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

39.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Williamson, John

42.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

43.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.