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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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

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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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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Crane, George W.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, Greek

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The back of one door is the face of another.