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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Crane, George W.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Wicker, John

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

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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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 always looks better going than coming.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ovid

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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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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel