Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

YoungJr., Whitney

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

15.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

17.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Publilius Syrus

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Horace

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

Young, Brigham

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

Branson, Richard

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Herbert, Jack

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes