Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ovid

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Koch, Sally

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Wicker, John

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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

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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 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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

39.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

41.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

44.

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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sayle, Alexi