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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Herold, Don

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

11.

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

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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

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

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

20.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

22.

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

23.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

27.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

28.

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

Landers, Ann

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

30.

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

Flanders, Alberta

32.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

39.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

41.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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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

48.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Publilius Syrus

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