Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Menace, Dennis the

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Proverb, Greek

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

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

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

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

11.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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

19.

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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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.

25.

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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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 comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

30.

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

31.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

35.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.