Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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

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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

28.

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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Ovid

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