Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Crane, George W.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Iacocca, Lee