Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Lehmann, Rosamond

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Landers, Ann

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

Herold, Don

18.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Proverb, Arabian

22.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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

30.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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.

32.

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

33.

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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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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

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

Wicker, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.