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

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

10.

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

Branson, Richard

11.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

12.

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

17.

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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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

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

21.

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.

22.

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

Herold, Don

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

25.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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.

42.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

44.

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

Koch, Sally

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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 always looks better going than coming.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond