Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Herbert, Jack

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Horace

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Estefan, Gloria

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Wicker, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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