Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Greek

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

10.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

11.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

12.

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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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koch, Sally

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

28.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

30.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

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.

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

34.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

35.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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

38.

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.

39.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

40.

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

Wicker, John

41.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Herbert, Jack

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

49.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

50.

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