Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Hill, Napoleon

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Sharp, Tom

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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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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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

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Herold, Don

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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