Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Koch, Sally

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Landers, Ann

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

12.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

16.

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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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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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

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Herold, Don

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Branson, Richard

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Wicker, John

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The back of one door is the face of another.