Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hendricks, Howard

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.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

12.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

15.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

18.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

22.

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

23.

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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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

25.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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

32.

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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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Horace

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Kettering, Charles F.