Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

20.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Collier, Robert

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

40.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Horace

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Every wall is a door.

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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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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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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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.