Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

Koch, Sally

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

Barton, Bruce