Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Williamson, John

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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

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.

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

11.

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

Hendricks, Howard

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

13.

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

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

Crane, George W.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

20.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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

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

24.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

25.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

30.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

31.

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 ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

33.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

34.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

35.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

39.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

40.

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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

44.

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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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