Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

Horace

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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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

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

Koch, Sally

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wicker, John

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke