Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

10.

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

Flanders, Alberta

11.

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

Wicker, John

12.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

13.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Sayle, Alexi

15.

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

16.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

17.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

18.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

19.

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

21.

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

Nightingale, Earl

22.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

24.

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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

26.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Herold, Don

28.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

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

Sharp, Tom

30.

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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Koch, Sally

43.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

48.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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