Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Branson, Richard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hill, Napoleon

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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