Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

Crane, George W.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Landers, Ann

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

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

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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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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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

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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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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

39.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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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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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