Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Horace

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

Wicker, John

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kennedy, John F.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

10.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

12.

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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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

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

15.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Koch, Sally

19.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

24.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

39.

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

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

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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 often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

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

Nightingale, Earl