Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Crane, George W.

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Koch, Sally

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Horace

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

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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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Williamson, John

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

Herold, Don

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Nightingale, Earl

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