Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Koch, Sally

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Proverb, Greek

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

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

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

Wicker, John

16.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

17.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Ovid

21.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

22.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

23.

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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

25.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

28.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

29.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

30.

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

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

33.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

34.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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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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

45.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

48.

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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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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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