Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

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

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wicker, John

11.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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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

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Ovid

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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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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch