Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

- Anderson, Bob

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Koch, Sally

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Forbes, B. C.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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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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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Edison, Thomas A.