Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Barton, Bruce

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

18.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Crane, George W.

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

33.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

34.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

35.

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

Koch, Sally

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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.

38.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Proverb, Greek

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey