Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

- Sharp, Tom

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

20.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Menace, Dennis the

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

32.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Wicker, John

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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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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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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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Herold, Don

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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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