Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Landers, Ann

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.

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

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

11.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

16.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

20.

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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Herbert, Jack

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

29.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Koch, Sally

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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.

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Be an opener of doors.

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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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

48.

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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen