Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Grade, Lord Lew

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Herold, Don

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

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.

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

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

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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Young, Brigham

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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 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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sharp, Tom

31.

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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Koch, Sally

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

42.

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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

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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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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