Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Young, Brigham

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

10.

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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

15.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Branson, Richard

20.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

21.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

24.

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

Collier, Robert

25.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

27.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

29.

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

Hendricks, Howard

30.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

31.

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

Sharp, Tom

32.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

34.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Flanders, Alberta

39.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, Greek

48.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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