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

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

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Crane, George W.

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

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

Proverb, Greek

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

10.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

22.

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

Williamson, John

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Wicker, John

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

27.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

29.

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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

35.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver