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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

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

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

13.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Proverb, Greek

21.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

24.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

25.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

26.

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

Branson, Richard

27.

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.

28.

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

Herbert, Jack

29.

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

Horace

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

Wicker, John

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

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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

33.

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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Williamson, John

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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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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

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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

44.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

45.

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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver