Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hendricks, Howard

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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.

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

Wicker, John

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Williamson, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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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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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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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.

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Koch, Sally

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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.

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

Horace

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

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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