Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Branson, Richard

11.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Herbert, Jack

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

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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.

20.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

21.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Crane, George W.

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Proverb, Greek

32.

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

33.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Barton, Bruce

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.