Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

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.

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 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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Koch, Sally

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

18.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

30.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Branson, Richard

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

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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 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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Proverb, Greek