Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Koch, Sally

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

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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 lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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 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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

37.

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

Ovid

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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Wicker, John

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.