Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Publilius Syrus

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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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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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

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Herold, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Herbert, Jack

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Wicker, John

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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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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