Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

- Ginzberg, Eli

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

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

Branson, Richard

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Proverb, Greek

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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