Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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.

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

Ovid

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Proverb, Greek

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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