Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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 neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

18.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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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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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

27.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Grade, Lord Lew

30.

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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

39.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

40.

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

41.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

42.

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

Williamson, John

44.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.