Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

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

Horace

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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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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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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Branson, Richard

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Young, Brigham

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

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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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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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