Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Sharp, Tom

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Barton, Bruce

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Branson, Richard

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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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Herold, Don

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Koch, Sally

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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 the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon