Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Herold, Don

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Branson, Richard

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Horace

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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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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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