Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Williamson, John

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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.

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

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

Branson, Richard

10.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

11.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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.

18.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

19.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

22.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

26.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

27.

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

29.

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

31.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

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

43.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

44.

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

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

47.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.