Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Horace

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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

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

28.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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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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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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 must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.