Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Williamson, John

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Horace

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

Koch, Sally

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Landers, Ann

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

Herold, Don

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Flanders, Alberta