Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herbert, Jack

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Young, Brigham

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Horace

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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