Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

- Krishna, Rama

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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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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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ovid

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Wicker, John

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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hendricks, Howard