Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

- Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Jack

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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