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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Proverb, Arabian

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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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

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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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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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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

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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

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

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Herold, Don

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver