Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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.

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

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.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Horace

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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