Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Williamson, John

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

10.

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

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

13.

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

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

18.

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

19.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

24.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Wicker, John

29.

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

30.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

34.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.