Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Young, Brigham

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Horace

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.

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

10.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

11.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

12.

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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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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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

15.

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 comes from knocking on doors until they open.

17.

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

Herold, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

28.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

34.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

38.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.