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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Landers, Ann

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.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

10.

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

Williamson, John

11.

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

Hendricks, Howard

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

15.

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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

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

Herold, Don

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

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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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

30.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

31.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

35.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Horace

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

42.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

44.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

45.

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

Wicker, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

47.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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