Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

- Proverb, Cuban

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Rowland, Helen

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Horace

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Herold, Don

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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