Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herold, Don

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Williamson, John

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

25.

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

Koch, Sally

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Collier, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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