Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Branson, Richard

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel