Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Horace

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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

45.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Young, Brigham