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

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.

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Horace

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Wicker, John

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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

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Williamson, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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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