Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Nightingale, Earl

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Greek

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

Wicker, John

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

Young, Brigham

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunity creates desire.