Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Branson, Richard

10.

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

Herold, Don

11.

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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

13.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

14.

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

15.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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 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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

22.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

Hendricks, Howard

26.

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

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

28.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

36.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

37.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

44.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Wicker, John

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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