Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Williamson, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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

Collier, Robert

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

10.

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

11.

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

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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

14.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

15.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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 the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

24.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

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

Ovid

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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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Williamson, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

42.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

43.

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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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