Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

18.

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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

21.

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

22.

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

Williamson, John

23.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

28.

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

Sayle, Alexi

30.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

31.

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

Landers, Ann

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

34.

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

35.

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

Flanders, Alberta

37.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

38.

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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

40.

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

41.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

42.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

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

45.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

48.

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

49.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Proverb, Greek