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

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

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Horace

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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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