Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Greek

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

10.

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

Branson, Richard

11.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Herold, Don

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

22.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

23.

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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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

25.

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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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

27.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

28.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

29.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

35.

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

Koch, Sally

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

38.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Young, Brigham

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

Wicker, John

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

43.

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

Herbert, Jack

45.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Williamson, John