Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sharp, Tom

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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

Barton, Bruce

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

11.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

13.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

14.

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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

19.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

21.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

22.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

24.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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

26.

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

Iacocca, Lee

27.

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

Flanders, Alberta

28.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

29.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

30.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

31.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

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

Menace, Dennis the

33.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

34.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

35.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Ovid

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

Wicker, John

46.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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