Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Branson, Richard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Landers, Ann

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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 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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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

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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 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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Mandino, Og

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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