Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Menace, Dennis the

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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.

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

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Hendricks, Howard

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Ovid

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Be an opener of doors.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

Wicker, John

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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

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Horace

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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