Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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.

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

Wicker, John

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Herold, Don

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

Williamson, John

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Koch, Sally

15.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

17.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

18.

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

19.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

27.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

28.

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

29.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

30.

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

Horace

31.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

32.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

33.

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

Flanders, Alberta

34.

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

35.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

36.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

39.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

40.

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

Forbes, B. C.

41.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

42.

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

Proverb, Arabian

43.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

44.

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.

45.

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

Barton, Bruce

46.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

47.

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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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

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