Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Iacocca, Lee

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

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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

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

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Herold, Don

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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 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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver