Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grade, Lord Lew

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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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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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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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Young, Brigham

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

Flanders, Alberta

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

41.

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

Koch, Sally

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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