Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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

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

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

Wicker, John

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Koch, Sally

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Publilius Syrus

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John