Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Menace, Dennis the

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

26.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

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

Flanders, Alberta