Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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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 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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it