Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Horace

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.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Crane, George W.

12.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

15.

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

Branson, Richard

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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

20.

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

Menace, Dennis the

21.

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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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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

27.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Publilius Syrus

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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 is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Flanders, Alberta