Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Wicker, John

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Landers, Ann

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

16.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

17.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

21.

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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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

23.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

24.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

25.

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

26.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

30.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

33.

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

Young, Brigham

35.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

39.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

40.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

41.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

42.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

43.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Iacocca, Lee

48.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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.

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

Flanders, Alberta