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

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

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

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

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Horace

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Young, Brigham

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

Ovid

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nightingale, Earl

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Branson, Richard

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Publilius Syrus

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban