Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, Jack

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Koch, Sally

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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