Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Proverb, Greek

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Wicker, John

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Young, Brigham

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John