Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

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

Landers, Ann

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

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