Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

11.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

19.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

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

21.

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

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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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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

25.

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

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

28.

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Horace

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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