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 wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Publilius Syrus

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Branson, Richard

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horace

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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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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Benington, Lucy

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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 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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.