Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Wicker, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Hendricks, Howard

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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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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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Young, Brigham

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.