Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Herbert, Jack

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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.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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