Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Young, Brigham

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

11.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

12.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

19.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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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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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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

25.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

27.

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

28.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

29.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

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.

32.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

33.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

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

Williamson, John

35.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

36.

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

37.

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

Sharp, Tom

38.

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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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

40.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Greek

43.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

44.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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When fortune knocks open the door.