Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Wicker, John

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

30.

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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.