Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Williamson, John

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Flanders, Alberta

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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 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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Landers, Ann

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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 is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German