Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

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

Koch, Sally

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

12.

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

13.

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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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

17.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

18.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Landers, Ann

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

21.

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

22.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

25.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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

Herold, Don

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

Collier, Robert

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.