Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Williamson, John

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

15.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

25.

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

28.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

34.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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.

38.

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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.