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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Grade, Lord Lew

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

10.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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

17.

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

18.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

19.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

21.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

25.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

26.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

29.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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

Forbes, B. C.

31.

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

50.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo