Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Hoffer, Eric

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Horace

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

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

Koch, Sally

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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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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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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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