Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Menace, Dennis the

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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

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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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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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