Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Horace

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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

Crane, George W.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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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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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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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 same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Wicker, John

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.