Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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.

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right 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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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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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Nightingale, Earl

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.