Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Williamson, John

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Landers, Ann

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

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

26.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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