Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

Crane, George W.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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

11.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

12.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Williamson, John

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Landers, Ann

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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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