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

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

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

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Buffett, Warren

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Crane, George W.

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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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.

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Herbert, Jack