Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Collier, Robert

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Horace

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hendricks, Howard

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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 steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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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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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo