Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Landers, Ann

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Iacocca, Lee

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Menace, Dennis the

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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