Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Herold, Don

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Menace, Dennis the

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

22.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Young, Brigham

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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

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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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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Landers, Ann

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois