Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Proverb, Greek

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

10.

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

Hendricks, Howard

11.

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

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Barton, Bruce

14.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

15.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

16.

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

Herbert, Jack

17.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

18.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

19.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

25.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

26.

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

Koch, Sally

27.

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

29.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

35.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Williamson, John

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

42.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

43.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sayle, Alexi

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