Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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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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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Herold, Don

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

Koch, Sally

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Wicker, John

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Young, Brigham

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Horace

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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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.