Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Landers, Ann

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rowland, Helen

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hendricks, Howard

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric