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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Horace

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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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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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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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Herold, Don

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Branson, Richard

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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crane, George W.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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