Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Collier, Robert

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Herold, Don

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Horace

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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.

42.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Young, Brigham

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

Williamson, John

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, Arabian