Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

- Proverb, Cuban

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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 comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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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

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Crane, George W.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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

Herold, Don