Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Grade, Lord Lew

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

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

11.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

15.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

19.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

20.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

22.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

23.

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

24.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

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

27.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

28.

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

Menace, Dennis the

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

35.

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

36.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

38.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

39.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

40.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

41.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Flanders, Alberta

46.

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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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Crane, George W.