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

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Gracian, Baltasar

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

10.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Herold, Don

12.

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

Wicker, John

13.

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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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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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

16.

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

Horace

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

18.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

19.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

21.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

22.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

23.

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

Ovid

25.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

26.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

27.

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

Proverb, Greek

28.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

29.

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

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

32.

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

35.

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

Flanders, Alberta

36.

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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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

40.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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

42.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

43.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

44.

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

45.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

46.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Williamson, John

48.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.