Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Wicker, John

11.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

14.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

18.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

19.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

20.

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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Crane, George W.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

26.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

32.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Menace, Dennis the

39.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

42.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

45.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

47.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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