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

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sharp, Tom

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Young, Brigham

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Sayle, Alexi

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