Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Landers, Ann

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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 never lost; they are taken by others.

43.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen