Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Crane, George W.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

10.

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

11.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

16.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

17.

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

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

19.

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

Sharp, Tom

20.

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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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

22.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Proverb, Greek

24.

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

25.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

26.

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

Menace, Dennis the

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

41.

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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

45.

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

46.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

47.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

48.

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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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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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