Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

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

11.

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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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

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

Branson, Richard

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

18.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

19.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

20.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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 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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Landers, Ann

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

29.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

31.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

34.

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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