Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hoffer, Eric

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Sharp, Tom

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Landers, Ann

10.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

13.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

18.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

23.

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

25.

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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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

39.

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

Collier, Robert

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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 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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

46.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.