Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Horace

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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

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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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, Greek

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Hill, Napoleon

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