Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Publilius Syrus

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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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 back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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.

39.

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser