Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

10.

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

11.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

14.

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

15.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

16.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Wicker, John

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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 usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Koch, Sally

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

25.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

27.

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 ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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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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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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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

32.

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

34.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

42.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

Sayle, Alexi

45.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.