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

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Herold, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Williamson, John

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Nightingale, Earl