Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Crane, George W.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Herbert, Jack

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Herold, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Horace

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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

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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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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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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