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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Landers, Ann

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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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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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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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Williamson, John

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Branson, Richard

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen