Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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.

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

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Wicker, John

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

25.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

29.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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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

31.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Branson, Richard

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

35.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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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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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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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.

41.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Koch, Sally