Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

Horace

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

Branson, Richard

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Herold, Don

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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 is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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