Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Menace, Dennis the

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Proverb, Greek

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crane, George W.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Young, Brigham

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Wicker, John

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.