Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Flanders, Alberta

11.

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

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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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.

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

43.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

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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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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