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

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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 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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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk