Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

Horace

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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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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Koch, Sally

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Herold, Don

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen