Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Crane, George W.

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

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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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Greek

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Landers, Ann

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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

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

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.