Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Sharp, Tom

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

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

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

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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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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 same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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 must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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