Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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.

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Young, Brigham

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

Crane, George W.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

28.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Herold, Don

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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