Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Koch, Sally

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Horace

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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