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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Landers, Ann

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Horace

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Forbes, B. C.

32.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser