Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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.

10.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Horace

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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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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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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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

25.

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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

35.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes