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

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

Wicker, John

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

Herbert, Jack

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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

Hoffer, Eric

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Landers, Ann

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

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

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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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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Horace

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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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.