Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Young, Brigham

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

Horace

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Landers, Ann

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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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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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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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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

38.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

41.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Wicker, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Herold, Don

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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

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German