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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Ovid

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

Nightingale, Earl

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Koch, Sally

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wicker, John

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

34.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Greek

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don