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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Horace

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

10.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

12.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

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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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

38.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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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

41.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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 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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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