Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Proverb, Arabian

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

10.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

17.

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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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

19.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Flanders, Alberta

21.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Grade, Lord Lew

24.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

25.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

26.

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

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

Herold, Don

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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

32.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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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

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Williamson, John

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

YoungJr., Whitney