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

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 ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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

13.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

14.

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

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

16.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

17.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

18.

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

Horace

19.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Landers, Ann

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

28.

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

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

33.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

35.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

36.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

40.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Greek

45.

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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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

48.

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

50.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.