Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Wicker, John

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

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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

11.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

12.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

18.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

22.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, Jack

25.

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.

26.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

27.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

28.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

31.

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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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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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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ovid

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

Flanders, Alberta

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