Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

- Proverb, Cuban

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Proverb, Greek

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Ovid

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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