Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

12.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Herold, Don

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

19.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

29.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

32.

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

33.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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

39.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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