Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Young, Brigham

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

30.

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

31.

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

Collier, Robert

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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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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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 create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Horace

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.