Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Barton, Bruce

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wicker, John

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

10.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

13.

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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Herold, Don

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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Iacocca, Lee

21.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

22.

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

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

29.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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

37.

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

38.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

39.

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

Flanders, Alberta

40.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Crane, George W.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Horace

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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

48.

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

49.

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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes