Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Koch, Sally

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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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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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson