Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Iacocca, Lee

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Sharp, Tom

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

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

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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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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Wicker, John