Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Menace, Dennis the

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Herold, Don

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Sayle, Alexi

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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

Horace

14.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Proverb, Arabian