Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Koch, Sally

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

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

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Branson, Richard

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Horace

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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

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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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

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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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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.

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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