Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herold, Don

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Horace

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

35.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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.

39.

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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Publilius Syrus

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod