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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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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

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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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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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 wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

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

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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 must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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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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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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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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

Horace

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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.