Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Horace

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

11.

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

Flanders, Alberta

12.

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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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

14.

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

15.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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

17.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

24.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

31.

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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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

34.

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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

38.

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

39.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

40.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

44.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

45.

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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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.

47.

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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

49.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama