Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Williamson, John

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Horace

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Branson, Richard

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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.