Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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

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

Horace

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

10.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Hendricks, Howard

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Wicker, John

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

31.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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 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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

44.

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

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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

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

Herold, Don

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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.