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

Grade, Lord Lew

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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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

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Herbert, Jack

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John