Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Landers, Ann

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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 an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Publilius Syrus

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Wicker, John

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Herold, Don