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

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Branson, Richard

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Landers, Ann

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo