Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Williamson, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Wicker, John

10.

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

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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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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

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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.

14.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

20.

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

Horace

21.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

22.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

28.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Young, Brigham

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

33.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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

39.

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

40.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

41.

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.

42.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Koch, Sally

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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

46.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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