Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sharp, Tom

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

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

11.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Barton, Bruce

15.

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

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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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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

30.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

31.

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

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Williamson, John

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Young, Brigham

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Crane, George W.

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

Horace

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.