Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Young, Brigham

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Wicker, John

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Mandino, Og

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

Publilius Syrus

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Koch, Sally

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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