Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

10.

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

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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

14.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

20.

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

21.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

25.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

35.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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

37.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

39.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

43.

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

Hendricks, Howard

44.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

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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.