Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

- Conwell, Russel H.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

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

Sharp, Tom

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Herold, Don

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

Koch, Sally

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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