Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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.

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

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Horace

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Wicker, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.