Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Herold, Don

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Crane, George W.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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 multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Williamson, John

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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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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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul