Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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.

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

Herold, Don

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

Landers, Ann

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Koch, Sally

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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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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