Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Herold, Don

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

10.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

11.

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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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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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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 must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Crane, George W.

25.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

31.

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

32.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Ovid

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Horace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod