Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

- Proverb, Dutch

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Herbert, Jack

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Crane, George W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Horace

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Branson, Richard

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.