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

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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

Williamson, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Koch, Sally

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Young, Brigham

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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