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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

Horace

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

Ovid

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

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

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Landers, Ann

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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