Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Proverb, Greek

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

36.

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

Ovid

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce