Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

13.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

14.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

16.

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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

18.

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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

21.

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

22.

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

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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

31.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

32.

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

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

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

42.

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

43.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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.

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

Flanders, Alberta