Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Branson, Richard

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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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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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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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.