Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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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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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

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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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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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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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Menace, Dennis the

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.