Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Sharp, Tom

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Branson, Richard

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Horace

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.