Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Horace

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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 always looks better going than coming.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Greek

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.