Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rowland, Helen

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

10.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

17.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

18.

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

Crane, George W.

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

21.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

33.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

34.

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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

41.

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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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When fortune knocks open the door.