Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Nightingale, Earl

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

16.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Ovid

19.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Steichen, Edward

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

31.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Crane, George W.

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

43.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama