Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Menace, Dennis the

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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 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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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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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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Herold, Don

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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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Flanders, Alberta