Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Herold, Don

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Publilius Syrus

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

16.

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

17.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

19.

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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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

Branson, Richard

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

Young, Brigham

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

37.

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

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

40.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

49.

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

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