Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Iacocca, Lee

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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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

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Ovid

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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