Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Landers, Ann

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Collier, Robert

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

Flanders, Alberta

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

12.

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herbert, Jack

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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

Koch, Sally

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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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 neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

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