Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Sayle, Alexi

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver