Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

11.

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

12.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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.

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

20.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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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

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Young, Brigham

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser