Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Wicker, John

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Flanders, Alberta