Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

- Brown, Gene

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

28.

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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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 comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Sharp, Tom

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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 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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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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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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