Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Young, Brigham

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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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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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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Sayle, Alexi

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Be an opener of doors.