Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Landers, Ann

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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

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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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

29.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

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

Menace, Dennis the

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