Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Ovid

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Williamson, John

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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 sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Herold, Don

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor