Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herold, Don

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Wicker, John

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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 neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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 must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

32.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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