Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Peters, Thomas J.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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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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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

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

Williamson, John

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

43.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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