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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Young, Brigham

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

Landers, Ann

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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo