Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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

Nightingale, Earl

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Proverb, Greek

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

Williamson, John

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

24.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Young, Brigham

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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.

43.

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

Herold, Don

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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.