Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Menace, Dennis the

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Landers, Ann

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Williamson, 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

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

10.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Wicker, John

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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

Crane, George W.

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

Iacocca, Lee

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

41.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.