Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Young, Brigham

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Herold, Don

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

Sayle, Alexi

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Herbert, Jack

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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 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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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