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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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.

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.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crane, George W.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Williamson, John

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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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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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