Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herold, Don

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Koch, Sally

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

18.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

24.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

25.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Capone, Al

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod