Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

- Proverb, Cuban

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Williamson, John

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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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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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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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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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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 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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson