Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Young, Brigham

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

Hendricks, Howard

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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.

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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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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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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 must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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