Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Collier, Robert

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

10.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Horace

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Wicker, John

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

23.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Menace, Dennis the

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Landers, Ann

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.