Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Collier, Robert

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

10.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

13.

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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Publilius Syrus

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herbert, Jack

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

41.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Herold, Don

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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