Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Sharp, Tom

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

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Herold, Don

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Horace

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

Branson, Richard

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wicker, John

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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