Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

10.

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

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

Wicker, John

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

27.

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

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

Horace

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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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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

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Herold, Don

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

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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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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

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

Sayle, Alexi

40.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Peters, Thomas J.