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

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Horace

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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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.

14.

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

15.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

17.

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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

20.

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

21.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

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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

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Ovid

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Colton, Charles Caleb

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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