Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

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

Ovid

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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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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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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

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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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

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

Herold, Don

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

26.

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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Koch, Sally

36.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

42.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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.