Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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 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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Herold, Don

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Wicker, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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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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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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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von