Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herold, Don

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Young, Brigham

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, Arabian

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Proverb, Greek

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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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Koch, Sally

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.