Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Branson, Richard

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herold, Don

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Koch, Sally

11.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

12.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

Horace

14.

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

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

20.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herbert, Jack

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

40.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

44.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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