Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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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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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

12.

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

Williamson, John

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

22.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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

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

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herold, Don

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

Young, Brigham

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb