Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Horace

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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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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

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

Koch, Sally

18.

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.

19.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

20.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

21.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

23.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

24.

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

25.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

26.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

27.

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

Proverb, Greek

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

Flanders, Alberta

31.

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

Menace, Dennis the

32.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

37.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

38.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

39.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

42.

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

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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

44.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Ovid

48.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

49.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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