Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Lehmann, Rosamond

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Horace

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Wicker, John

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.