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

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

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

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.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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

Williamson, John

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

18.

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

Proverb, Greek

20.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

21.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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.

30.

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

Horace

32.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

40.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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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 ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

48.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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