Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

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

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

12.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

13.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

14.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Branson, Richard

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

18.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

25.

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

26.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

27.

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

Herbert, Jack

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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

33.

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

Crane, George W.

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

35.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

40.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

45.

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

Nightingale, Earl

46.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

49.

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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.