Motivational Quotes

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

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

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

Horace

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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