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

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Grade, Lord Lew

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Hendricks, Howard

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Wicker, John

29.

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Williamson, John

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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

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon