Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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.

10.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

11.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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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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

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Koch, Sally

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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

Young, Brigham

46.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Where one door closes, another opens.