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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Koch, Sally

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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Benington, Lucy

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Wicker, John

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Buffett, Warren