Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

10.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

11.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

12.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

13.

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

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

15.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Herold, Don

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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.

25.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

26.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

27.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

28.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

29.

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

30.

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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

35.

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 you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

39.

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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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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Proverb, Greek

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama