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

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Horace

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Wicker, John

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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 always looks better going than coming.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, 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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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Branson, Richard

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Landers, Ann

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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