Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Best Quotes about 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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

10.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

11.

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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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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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 same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

16.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

18.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Herold, Don

25.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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.

31.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

47.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

48.

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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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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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.