Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Crane, George W.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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.

12.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

13.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

15.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

16.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

19.

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

20.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

21.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

22.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Sharp, Tom

26.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

27.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

29.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

30.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

Wicker, John

35.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Koch, Sally

42.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

43.

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

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

46.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

47.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Horace