Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Wicker, John

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

Williamson, John

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

37.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.