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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

10.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

11.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

12.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

13.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

14.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

15.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

16.

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

17.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

18.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

19.

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

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

22.

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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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.

24.

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

25.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Young, Brigham

27.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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.

33.

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

Herbert, Jack

34.

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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

39.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

40.

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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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

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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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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

44.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

45.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

49.

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.