Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Branson, Richard

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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.

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

Landers, Ann

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Young, Brigham

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

21.

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 follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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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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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 always looks better going than coming.

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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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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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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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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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

Wicker, John

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois