Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

Herbert, Jack

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Branson, Richard

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

Koch, Sally

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

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Williamson, John

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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 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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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

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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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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson