Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sharp, Tom

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

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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