Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Horace

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

21.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

22.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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 see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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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