Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Ovid

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Menace, Dennis the

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Rowland, Helen

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

11.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

13.

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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

23.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

26.

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

31.

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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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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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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

39.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

42.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Williamson, John