Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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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 same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Koch, Sally

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius