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

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

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Herold, Don

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Koch, Sally

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

Collier, Robert

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

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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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the