Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

10.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

11.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

15.

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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

28.

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

Ovid

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

Horace

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

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

38.

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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herold, Don

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.