Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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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