Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

- Krishna, Rama

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Sharp, Tom

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

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

21.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Young, Brigham

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

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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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

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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

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

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

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

Koch, Sally

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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