Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Horace

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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.

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

Barton, Bruce

10.

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

Herold, Don

11.

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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Rowland, Helen

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

18.

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.

19.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

23.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

25.

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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

33.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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