Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Williamson, John

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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.

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

Wicker, John

10.

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

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

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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Landers, Ann

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

27.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Greek

30.

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

31.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

35.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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

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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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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