Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Collier, Robert

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.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Landers, Ann

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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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

11.

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.

12.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

13.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

15.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

16.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

17.

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 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.

19.

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

Sayle, Alexi

20.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

21.

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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

24.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

25.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

26.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

30.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

31.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

33.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

35.

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

Koch, Sally

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

37.

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

Young, Brigham

38.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

40.

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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

43.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

44.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

45.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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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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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