Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rowland, Helen

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

11.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

13.

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

17.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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 ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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

38.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Koch, Sally

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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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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

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus