Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

13.

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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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.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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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 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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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 same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Koch, Sally

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

Young, Brigham

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

Horace

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Iacocca, Lee