Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

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.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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 sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar