Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hendricks, Howard

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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.

10.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

11.

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

12.

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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

21.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

25.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

29.

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

33.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Grade, Lord Lew

38.

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

39.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Wicker, John

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

43.

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

44.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

45.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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