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, 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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Koch, Sally

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Horace

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don