Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Young, Brigham

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Horace

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Publilius Syrus

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, 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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunity creates desire.