Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

YoungJr., Whitney

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Publilius Syrus

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

10.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

12.

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Koch, Sally

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

21.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

24.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

25.

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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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

27.

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

Ovid

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

31.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

34.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

42.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

45.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.