Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Horace

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

Hendricks, Howard

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Branson, Richard