Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

10.

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

Ovid

11.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

12.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

13.

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

18.

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.

19.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

27.

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

Koch, Sally

28.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

29.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

30.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

31.

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

Barton, Bruce

33.

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

Flanders, Alberta

35.

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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

39.

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

40.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

41.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban