Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Ovid

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Williamson, John

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Young, Brigham

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Landers, Ann

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Horace

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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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 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