Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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

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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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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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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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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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Branson, Richard

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Williamson, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois