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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Koch, Sally

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

Williamson, John

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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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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

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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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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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver