Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Publilius Syrus

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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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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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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

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

26.

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

27.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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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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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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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.