Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Lehmann, Rosamond

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Crane, George W.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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 are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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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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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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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Branson, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Horace

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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