Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

10.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

11.

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

Koch, Sally

12.

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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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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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

15.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Landers, Ann

17.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

19.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

29.

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

30.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

31.

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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

39.

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

40.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

42.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

45.

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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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.

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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

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

49.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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