Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wicker, John

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Herold, Don

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

Sharp, Tom

31.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

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.

33.

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

39.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

41.

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

Proverb, Greek

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Koch, Sally

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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