Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Ovid

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

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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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.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Landers, Ann

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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