Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

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

Horace

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

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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 create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Crane, George W.

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

Herold, Don

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.