Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Forbes, B. C.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

14.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

18.

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

Herold, Don

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

Sayle, Alexi

20.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Branson, Richard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Gracian, Baltasar