Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Herold, Don

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wicker, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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