Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Herold, Don

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Williamson, John

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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 flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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.

31.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John