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

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

13.

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

16.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

17.

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

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Publilius Syrus

23.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Branson, Richard

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

32.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

33.

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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

35.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

37.

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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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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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 no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don