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

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

Wicker, John

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

11.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

17.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

18.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horace

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

30.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Crane, George W.

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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

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.