Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

21.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

37.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl