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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Wicker, John

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

10.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

21.

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

Iacocca, Lee

23.

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

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Horace

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

28.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

29.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann

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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

35.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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

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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.

43.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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.

45.

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

46.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Forbes, B. C.