Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Collier, Robert

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Ovid

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Koch, Sally

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

Proverb, Arabian

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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.