Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Menace, Dennis the

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Koch, Sally

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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.

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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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