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

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

Nightingale, Earl

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

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

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Crane, George W.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don

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

Williamson, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Publilius Syrus

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Herbert, Jack