Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Menace, Dennis the

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Crane, George W.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herold, Don

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

Horace

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

19.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

37.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hoffer, Eric