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

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

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.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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

Branson, Richard

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Crane, George W.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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