Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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.

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

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Branson, Richard

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

Herold, Don

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Nightingale, Earl