Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

Crane, George W.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

10.

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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

15.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

18.

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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

25.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Horace

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Buffett, Warren

28.

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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

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

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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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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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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Herold, Don

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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

49.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Koch, Sally