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

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Branson, Richard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

44.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

Landers, Ann

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod