Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Iacocca, Lee

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.