Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horace

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Young, Brigham

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

Herold, Don

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

Wicker, John

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Proverb, Greek

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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

39.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius