Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Publilius Syrus

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Herold, Don

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Branson, Richard

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Williamson, John

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.