Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ovid

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

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

10.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

11.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Crane, George W.

20.

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

21.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

22.

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

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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.

24.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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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

26.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

Horace

36.

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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Koch, Sally

42.

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

46.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo