Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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.

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

Horace

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

10.

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

11.

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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Herold, Don

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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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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.

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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

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

28.

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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

30.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

31.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

32.

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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

42.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

43.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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

45.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

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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

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