Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hendricks, Howard

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.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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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

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

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.