Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

Herbert, Jack

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hendricks, Howard

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

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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 is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.