Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

17.

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

Horace

18.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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.

20.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

25.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

26.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

27.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

28.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

31.

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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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

37.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

43.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

45.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene