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

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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

11.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

13.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Koch, Sally

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

39.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

40.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

41.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

42.

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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

47.

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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Williamson, John