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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Koch, Sally

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

Horace

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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