Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Sharp, Tom

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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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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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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 must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Sayle, Alexi

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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