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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Crane, George W.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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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

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Williamson, John

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Herold, Don

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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