Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Young, Brigham

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

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

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wicker, John

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crane, George W.

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

Horace

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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