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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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

Wicker, John

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Nightingale, Earl

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Koch, Sally

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Herold, Don

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom