Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

12.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

18.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

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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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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

41.

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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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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 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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herold, Don