Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Horace

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Wicker, John

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

Landers, Ann