Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

Proverb, Greek

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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 must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Herold, Don

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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

41.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Herbert, Jack