Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Herold, Don

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

Koch, Sally

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

42.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen