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

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

Rowland, Helen

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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

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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

11.

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 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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

16.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

20.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

27.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

29.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

33.

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

Sharp, Tom

34.

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

Buffett, Warren

35.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

36.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

40.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

45.

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

46.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius