Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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

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.

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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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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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Menace, Dennis the

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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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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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk