Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

- Brown, Gene

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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 sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

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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

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

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

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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 multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Herbert, Jack

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Horace

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

Young, Brigham

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban