Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Menace, Dennis the

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Flanders, Alberta

13.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Herold, Don

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Wicker, John

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