Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ovid

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rowland, Helen

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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.

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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

Wicker, John

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Young, Brigham

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.