Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

- Grade, Lord Lew

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Horace

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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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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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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Wicker, John

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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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.