Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Crane, George W.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

11.

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.

12.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

18.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

19.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Herbert, Jack

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

28.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

29.

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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

32.

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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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

42.

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

Proverb, Greek

43.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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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.