Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

Williamson, John

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Sayle, Alexi

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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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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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.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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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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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