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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Young, Brigham

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Branson, Richard

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Koch, Sally

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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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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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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.