Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Horace

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

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Wicker, John

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Ovid

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.