Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

10.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

12.

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

Herold, Don

13.

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

Koch, Sally

14.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

16.

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

17.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

19.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

20.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

21.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

25.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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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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 always looks better going than coming.

30.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

31.

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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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

33.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

34.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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

Proverb, Greek

36.

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

37.

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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

39.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

40.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

43.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

44.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

Herbert, Jack

48.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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