Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Branson, Richard

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Koch, Sally

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

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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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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

32.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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