Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Young, Brigham

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Williamson, John

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

32.

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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.