Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

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

Landers, Ann

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.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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

18.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

19.

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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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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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Horace

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Wicker, John

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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