Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Williamson, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

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.

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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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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

18.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

19.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Landers, Ann

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

24.

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Publilius Syrus

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Williamson, John

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

43.

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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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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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

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.