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

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

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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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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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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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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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Wicker, John

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Every wall is a door.

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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hoffer, Eric