Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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 must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

Wicker, John

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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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

Landers, Ann

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Herold, Don

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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