Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Proverb, Greek

13.

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

Williamson, John

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

19.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

20.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

22.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herbert, Jack

31.

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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

33.

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

Ovid

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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.

36.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Wicker, John

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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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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

45.

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

46.

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

Koch, Sally

47.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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