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

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

Menace, Dennis the

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

15.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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

19.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

22.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

23.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

25.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

26.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

28.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

29.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Proverb, Greek

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

34.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

35.

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

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

Herold, Don

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

40.

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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

42.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Nightingale, Earl