Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

- Ginzberg, Eli

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Young, Brigham

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

YoungJr., Whitney

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Williamson, John

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

11.

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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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, 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

14.

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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

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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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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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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

28.

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.