Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

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

Barton, Bruce

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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.

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

Horace

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

12.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Wicker, John

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Hill, Napoleon

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

36.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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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.

41.

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Publilius Syrus