Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

18.

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

31.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

34.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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 sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

37.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

49.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

50.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen