Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Branson, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

13.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

15.

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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Young, Brigham

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Forbes, B. C.

31.

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

Proverb, Greek

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Horace

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius