Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Young, Brigham

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

11.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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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 back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

22.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Horace

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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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

40.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

44.

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

Herold, Don

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk