Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wicker, John

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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

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Be an opener of doors.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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 opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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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.

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

Williamson, 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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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