Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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.

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

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Herbert, Jack

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hendricks, Howard

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Crane, George W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Herold, Don

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Landers, Ann

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo