Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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.

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

Koch, Sally

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver