Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hoffer, Eric

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Sharp, Tom

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

12.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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

15.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

17.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Wicker, John

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

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

33.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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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