Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey