Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Williamson, John

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Koch, Sally

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Wicker, John

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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

Crane, George W.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

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

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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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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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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