Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Warren

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Landers, Ann

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Sayle, Alexi

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Wicker, John

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Horace

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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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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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David 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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

Crane, George W.