Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ovid

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.