Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Williamson, John

10.

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 can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

12.

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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

15.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

16.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

17.

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.

18.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

23.

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

Hendricks, Howard

24.

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

25.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

26.

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

27.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

29.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

30.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

31.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Branson, Richard

37.

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

38.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

39.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

40.

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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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

42.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

43.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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.

46.

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

47.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.