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

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

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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 create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Wicker, John

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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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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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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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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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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