Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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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 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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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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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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

Branson, Richard

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.