Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

10.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

11.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

18.

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

Wicker, John

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Downs, Lawrence

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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

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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.

25.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

29.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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

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

33.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Branson, Richard

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Young, Brigham

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb