Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Williamson, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Iacocca, Lee

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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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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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.