Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

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

Nightingale, Earl

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

10.

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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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

24.

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

Crane, George W.

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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

26.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

27.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Wicker, John

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Branson, Richard

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

40.

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

41.

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

45.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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